356 Pages
by
Routledge
356 Pages
by
Routledge
358 Pages
by
Routledge
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This comprehensive introductory text describes health systems in the United States and in other countries, with emphasis on their ability to deliver goods and services, their cost, and their operation within a legal framework. Included is a discussion of such major developments as prepaid group practice, automated multiphasic health testing, national health insurance, professional standards review... Read more
Foreword -- Introduction -- Systems and Health Care -- Understanding the Semantics of Health Care -- The U.S. Health Care Delivery System: Background -- Organized Care -- Mental Health -- Health Services for the Aged -- Disjointed Community Efforts To Organize the Delivery of Health Care -- Medical Business in the Private Sector -- Government Health Care Activities -- Independent Practitioners -- Economics and Finance of Health Care -- Negligence and Medical Malpractice -- Sociopolitical Aspects of Health Care -- Future Delivery of Health Care: Emerging Concepts -- National Systems of Health Care -- Two Directions for a Health System -- Spaceship Earth, Evolution, and Health Care -- : Gourmand and Food—A Fable
Biography
Douglas R. Mackintosh
