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Author Bodenheimer, Thomas, author.

Title Understanding health policy : a clinical approach / Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach, Rachel Willard-Grace
Edition Ninth edition
Published New York : McGraw Hill, [2024]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents Introduction: the strengths and weaknesses of US health care -- How money moves -- Paying for health care: health insurance and access to health care -- Paying health care providers: health equity -- Medical ethics and rationing of health care -- How health care is organized I: primary, secondary, and tertiary care -- How health care is organized II: health care delivery systems -- The health care workforce and the education of health professionals -- Long-term care -- Painful versus painless cost control -- Mechanisms for controlling costs -- Quality of health care -- Population health and disease prevention -- Health care in four nations -- Health care reform and national health insurance -- The business of US health care -- Conclusion: tensions and challenges -- Questions to assess understanding
Summary "This is a book about health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system. When treating a patient's illness, health expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product or variations in surgical rates between one city and another seem remote if not irrelevant-but they are neither remote nor irrelevant. Health policy affects the patients we see on a daily basis. Managed care referral rules determine which specialist will see a patient; coverage gaps in the Medicare benefit package affects access to care for the elderly. Understanding Health Policy hopes to bridge the gap separating the microworld of individual patient care and the macrouniverse of health policy"-- Provided by publisher
Notes "A Lange medical book."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes Description based on online resource; title from electronic title page (AccessMedicine, viewed November 28, 2023)
Subject Medical policy.
Medical care, Cost of.
Health care reform.
Health insurance -- United States.
Health Policy
Health Care Costs
Health Care Rationing
Health Care Reform
Health Equity
National Health Insurance, United States
Health care reform
Health insurance
Medical care, Cost of
Medical policy
SUBJECT United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject United States
Form Electronic book
Author Grumbach, Kevin, author.
Willard-Grace, Rachel, author.
ISBN 9781265905026
1265905029