Understanding Health Policy, Fifth Edition
By nones on Jan 6, 2010 in Health
- ISBN13: 9780071496063
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Product Description
An engaging and clinically applicable work on the principles and structure of the U.S. healthcare system
A Doody’s Core Title ESSENTIAL PURCHASE!
“Eminently readable…Anyone wanting to gain insight into the forces that shaping health policy and the future of health care will appreciate this book.”–Critical Care Nurse Magazine
Understanding Health Policy is the best-written, most informative book available on the subject–and it’s the #1 choice for healthcare students and professionals alike. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make important health policy issues both interesting and understandable.
Fully updated to reflect current issues in the ever-changing world of healthcare, the newest edition addresses all the topics that affect you most, from the structure and organization of the industry to issues regarding government and private insurance, to access to healthcare.
Everything you need to understand how the healthcare system works - and your role in it:
- Clinical vignettes in every chapter illustrate key points
- Detailed treatment of both U.S. and international issues
- A complete chapter of review questions
- NEW Expanded coverage of healthcare workers other than physicians
- NEW Closer scrutiny of the pharmaceutical industry
- NEW Brand-new chapter on the medical education system
On Jan 6, 2010, J. Couto said:
Beware: This is an highly ideological text that starts with the assumption that health care is a right! It than goes on to say that in order to fulfill that right it is necessary to control the costs of health care. Obviously, cost control is a very problematic economic proposition that calls for state intervention and that sometimes has consequences that are the opposite of what is desired.
In the UK, where health care is a right, cost control has led to shortages, waiting lists and an overall degradation of health care. The UK, currently, has the highest mortality rates for oncological problems of all the EU countries and British people got used to flying to France and India for medical care. Canadians also have shortages and Canadians resort to the US.
Sometimes a “right” can easily turn into a “wrong”!
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