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Understanding Health Policy A Clinical Approach, 9th Edition
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Title
Understanding Health Policy [electronic resource] : A Clinical Approach, 9th Edition / Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach, Rachel Willard-Grace.
ISBN
9781265905026 (print-ISBN)
1265905029 (print-ISBN)
9781265905514 (e-ISBN)
Edition
Ninth ed.
Published
New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., 2024.
Physical Description
1 online resource : ill., figs., tables.
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on cover image and table of contents, viewed on November 20, 2023.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
This is a book about health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system. When treating a patient's illness, health expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product or variations in surgical rates between one city and another seem remote if not irrelevant-but they are neither remote nor irrelevant. Health policy affects the patients we see on a daily basis. Managed care referral rules determine which specialist will see a patient; coverage gaps in the Medicare benefit package affects access to care for the elderly. Understanding Health Policy hopes to bridge the gap separating the microworld of individual patient care and the macrouniverse of health policy.
Variant and related titles
McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine.
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Also issued in Online and PDF version.
Online version : Understanding Health Policy : A Clinical Approach. Ninth edition. New York, N.Y. : McGraw-Hill Education LLC., 2024
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
June 20, 2024
Series
McGraw-Hill's AccessMedicine
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: The Strengths and Weaknesses of US Health Care
Section I: Financing and Payment-How Money Moves
Chapter 2: Paying for Health Care
Chapter 3: Health Insurance and Access to Health Care
Chapter 4: Paying Health Care Providers
Section II: Equity and Resource Allocation
Chapter 5: Health Equity
Chapter 6: Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care
Section III: The Organization of Health Care
Chapter 7: How Health Care Is Organized-I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care
Chapter 8: How Health Care Is Organized-II: Health Care Delivery Systems
Chapter 9: The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals
Chapter 10: Long-Term Care
Section IV: Cost, Quality, and Value
Chapter 11: Painful Versus Painless Cost Control
Chapter 12: Mechanisms for Controlling Costs
Chapter 13: Quality of Health Care
Chapter 14: Population Health and Disease Prevention
Section V: The Political Economy of Health Care
Chapter 15: Health Care in Four Nations
Chapter 16: Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance
Chapter 17: The Business of US Health Care
Section VI: Conclusion and Study Guide
Chapter 18: Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges
Chapter 19: Questions to Assess Understanding
Appendix: Answers to Questions in Chapter 19.
Subjects
Subjects (Medical)
Health Care Costs
Health Care Rationing
Health Care Reform
Health Equity
Health Policy*
National Health Insurance, United States
United States
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