1st Edition

Report On Cuba Findings Of The Study Group On United Statescuba Relations

Edited By The Study Group Copyright 1984
    52 Pages
    by Routledge

    52 Pages
    by Routledge

    This book identifies major national and international influences that have affected American health-care developments, examines health-care innovations that developed outside the mainstream, reexamines current health-care policy proposals, and suggests types of innovations currently feasible.

    Introduction -- Understanding How We Got Here: Creating a Health-Care Industry -- First Efforts at Cost Control -- Health-Care Innovation in a Rapidly Changing World Economy -- The 1990s: Efforts at More Basic Reform in a New World Order -- Contending Strategies for Reform: Underlying Principles, Unanticiapated Consequences, and Unmet Problems -- Origins of New Health-Care Perspectives -- Holistic Health -- Prevention and Health Promotion: Industry, the Government and Foundations Innovate -- Understanding the Ecology of Health and Disease -- Reapproaching Health: Next Steps -- Reapproaching Problems of Cost -- Reapproaching Problems of Access -- In Conclusion -- Appendix: Tables

    Biography

    Max Heirich