Us Health Policy and Health Care Delivery: Doctors, Reformers, and Entrepreneurs

ISBN-13: 9781107117204 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 188 str.

Carl F. Ameringer

Opis

Ameringer explains the development and current state of America's overspecialized, uncoordinated, and fragmented healthcare industry.

Recenzje

'This is a compact, highly readable story of the jostling of interests, and Ameringer's book wrangles the unruly history of the U.S. healthcare system into a neater and more linear story.' Miriam J. Laugesen, Bulletin of the History of Medicine

Spis treści

1. Health policy and health care delivery; 2. The scientific practitioner, 1870–1918; 3. Group medical practice and group insurance, 1919–1943; 4. The hospital as community health center, 1945–1965; 5. The turn to market competition, 1965–1995; 6. The emergence of corporate health systems, 1996–2015.