Systems of Health Care

ISBN-13: 9780367289393 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 356 str.

Douglas R. Mackintosh

Opis

This book 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, discussing major developments such as prepaid group practice, and national health insurance.

Spis treści

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

O autorze

Douglas R. Mackintosh