The health care mess : how we got into it and what it will take to get out /

In this important new book, Julius Richmond and Rashi Fein recount the fraught history of health care in America since the 1960s, showing how the promises of medical advances have not been matched either by financing or by delivery of care. As a new crisis looms, and the existing patchwork of insura...

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Những tác giả chính: Richmond, Julius B. (Julius Benjamin), 1916-2008 (Tác giả), Fein, Rashi (Tác giả)
Định dạng: Licensed eBooks
Ngôn ngữ:Tiếng Anh
Được phát hành: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2005.
Truy cập trực tuyến:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=282350
Mục lục:
  • The educational and scientific revolution : higher standards and changing practices
  • The consumer revolution : increasing access to medical care
  • Emerging tensions between regulation and market forces : dealing with growth
  • Education for the health professions : the impact of growth
  • The entrepreneurial revolution : a changing face for medicine
  • Beyond the dollars : progress in health and the role of public health
  • Medical challenges and opportunities
  • Increasing equity : achieving universal health insurance.