Full Description
Understand how the healthcare system works - and how you can succeed in itCovers the 2010 Affordable Care ActA Doody's Core Title for 2015!The most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available, Understanding Health Policy provides everything students and professionals need to build a solid foundation on the field's most critical issues.Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system-from the concepts behind policy decisions to concrete examples of how they affect patients and professionals alike. Understanding Health Policy, 6e makes otherwise difficult concepts easy to understand-so you can make better decisions, improve outcomes, and enact positive change on a daily basis.Features:Coverage of structure, organization, and financing of the health care systemKey principles, descriptions, and concrete examples are skillfully interwoven in each chapter to make important issues interesting and understandable Clinical vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate how they apply to real-world situations Comprehensive list of review questions reinforce what you have learnedUnderstanding Health Policy, 6e will help you develop a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about health care in the United States, its problems, and the alternatives for managing and solving these problems.
Contents
1. Introduction2. Paying for Health Care3. Access to Health Care4. Reimbursing Health Care Providers5. How Health Care is Organized 1: Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Care6. How Health Care is Organized II: Health Delivery Systems7. The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Care Professionals8. Painful Versus Painless Cost Control9. Mechanisms for Controlling Costs10. Quality of Health Care11. Prevention of Illness12. Long-Term Care13. Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care14. Healh Care in Four Nations15. Healh Care Reform and National Health Insurance16. Conflict and Change in America's Health Care System17. Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges18. Questions and Discussion TopicsNER(01): WOW
