LEADER 03109oam 2200433zu 450 001 9910495959603321 005 20240304192228.0 010 $a0-520-91653-0 010 $a0-585-03396-X 024 7 $a10.1525/9780520916531 035 $a(CKB)111004366715176 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000225209 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12076010 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000225209 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10231364 035 $a(PQKB)11259912 035 $a(DE-B1597)648570 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780520916531 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111004366715176 100 $a20160829d1995 uy 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPower and illness - the failure and future of American health policy 210 31$a[Place of publication not identified]$cUniversity of California Press$d1995 215 $a1 online resource (192 pages) 300 $aBibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph 311 $a0-520-20151-5 330 $aDuring most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness-even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities.Fox discusses how ideas about illness and health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals, physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would become healthier. This position, implemented at considerable cost, has not adequately taken into account the growing burden of chronic disabling illness. While decision makers may have defined chronic disease as a high priority in research, they have not given it such a priority in the financing of health services.The increasing burden of chronic illness is critical. Fox suggests ways to solve this problem without increasing the already high cost of health care-but he does not underestimate the difficulties in such a strategy. Advocating the redistribution of resources within hospital and medical services, he targets those that are redundant or marginally effective.There could be no more timely subject today than American health care. And Daniel Fox is uniquely able to address its problems. A historian of medicine, with knowledge of how hospitals and physicians behave and how health policy is made at government levels, he has extensively researched published and unpublished documents on health care. What he proposes could profoundly affect all Americans. 606 $aHealth Policy 615 0$aHealth Policy. 700 $aFox$b Daniel M.$00 801 0$bPQKB 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495959603321 996 $aPower and Illness - The Failure and Future of American Health Policy$92903513 997 $aUNINA