Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery - Softcover

Sultz, Harry A.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763725714 ISBN 13: 9780763725716

Verlag: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2004

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Book by Harry A Sultz Kristina M Young

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Presented as an introductory textbook for use in schools of public health and medicine, this volume provides an overview of the professional, political, social, and economic forces that have shaped the forms and practices of the U.S. health care system. For this edition, Sultz and Young (both affiliated with the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sc

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Using a population-based approach, Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery, Fourth Edition, describes the changing roles and functions of health care in the United States, as well as the technical, economic, political, and social forces responsible for those changes. The authors provide an exceptionally clear overview of the many factors that determine why, how, where, and at what cost health care is delivered in the United States. This new edition highlights the momentous readjustments occurring in the market-driven system resulting from the managed care backlash, the implementation of the Balance Budget Act of 1997, and its amendments and contemporary policy directions.

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• Verlag: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0763725714
• ISBN 13: 9780763725716
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Auflage: 4
• Anzahl der Seiten: 497