Healthy, Wealthy or Wise?: Issues in American Health Care Policy

ISBN-13: 9781563245053 / Angielski / Miękka / 1995 / 272 str.

Jr. Charles T. Stewart

Opis

This study of the problems in America's health care system addresses three questions that have developed since the 1960s: why are care costs in America higher than elsewhere; how can costs be reduced without loss of quality; and what is the state of research, prevention and public information?

Spis treści

Chapter 1 Determinants of Health; Chapter 2 Why Are Costs Out of Control?; Chapter 3 Must Living Standards Decline?; Chapter 4 Health Insurance Raises Demand and Supply; Chapter 5 The Excess of Physicians and Services; Chapter 6 The Medicalization of Health; Chapter 7 Mental Illness; Chapter 8 The Excessive Demand for Medical Care; Chapter 9 Research and Technology; Chapter 10 The Physician as Agent; Chapter 11 Prevention: Environmental and Behavioral Modification; Chapter 12 The Demedicalization of Health Care; Chapter 13 What to Do?;

O autorze

Charles T. StewartJr.