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Record Nr.

UNINA9910454247403321

Autore

Almgren Gunnar Robert <1951->

Titolo

Health care politics, policy, and services [[electronic resource] ] : a social justice analysis / / Gunnar Almgren

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Springer Pub., c2007

ISBN

1-281-81269-2

9786611812690

0-8261-0479-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (364 p.)

Disciplina

362.10973

Soggetti

Medical policy - United States

Medical policy - United States - History

Social justice - United States

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Foreword; Preface; Acknowledgments; 1. A Primer on Theories of Social Justice and Defining the Problem of Health Care; 2. The Historical Evolvement of the U.S. Health Care System; 3. The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Finance; 4. The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Services and Utilization; 5. Long-Term Care of the Aged and Disabled; 6. Disparities in Health and Health Care; 7. Social Epidemiology: Unraveling the Social Determinants of Disparities in Health; 8. Competing Agendas for Health Care System Reform: A Social Justice Critique

GlossaryIndex

Sommario/riassunto

Designated a Doody's Core Title!. Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!.: Who Has a Right to Health Care?.; What Is the Government's Role in Providing Accessible Health Care?.; How Are Corporations, Insurance Companies, and Health Care Providers Affecting the Quality of Health Care?.; And, Most Importantly, Can We Reform the U.S. Health Care System?. We often debate these issues in health care policy or public health courses, yet we do so without the proper knowledge of the underlying structure of the U.S. health care system--or a



framework by which it can be judged. Many health care worker