The Private Regulation of American Health Care

ISBN-13: 9781563242885 / Angielski / Twarda / 1994 / 240 str.

Betty Leyerle

Opis

This work discusses a transformation of health care delivery that was launched by coalitions of business leaders during the early 1970s. It argues for a single-payer system and considers how public regulation offers the possibility of democratic participation in setting health care policies.

Spis treści

Introduction: Managed Competition—The Private Regulation of American Health Care; Chapter 1 The Twenty-Year-Old Crisis; Chapter 2 The Basic Components of Private Regulation; Chapter 3 The Evolution of Private Regulation; Chapter 4 Managing Health; Chapter 5 Managing “Quality” through Outcomes Research; Chapter 6 Conclusions;

O autorze

Betty Leyerle is Professor of Sociology and Human Services at Fort Lewis College, Durango, Colorado. She is the author of Moving and Shaking American Medicine: The Structure of a Socioeconomic Transformation (1984). Dr. Leyerle holds a Ph.D. in Sociology from the City University of New York.