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Health care politics, policy, and services : a social justice analysis / / Gunnar Almgren



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Autore: Almgren Gunnar Robert <1951-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Health care politics, policy, and services : a social justice analysis / / Gunnar Almgren Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Springer Pub., c2007
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (364 p.)
Disciplina: 362.10973
Soggetto topico: Medical policy - United States
Medical policy - United States - History
Social justice - United States
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
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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
Titolo autorizzato: Health care politics, policy, and services  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 1-281-81269-2
9786611812690
0-8261-0479-7
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910809968003321
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