David W Stewart

Healthy, Wealthy or Wise? (eBook, PDF)

Issues in American Health Care Policy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

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?

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315482484
• Artikelnr.: 49352053

Autorenporträt

Charles T. StewartJr.

Inhaltsangabe

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?