Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach - Softcover

Bodenheimer, Thomas; Grumbach, Kevin

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0838536786 ISBN 13: 9780838536780

Publisher: Appleton & Lange, 1995

Synopsis

A concise, clinically oriented introduction to the structure and function of the US health care system. Case examples illustrate fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, primary care, and physician and hospital payment, and tie policy issues to the practice of medicine.

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Book Description

Praise for previous editions: “Highly readable.” Annals of Internal Medicine “Well documented and highly readable.” National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Faculties Newsletter “One of the more interesting, readable texts in health policy to appear in recent years.” American Journal of Health System Pharmacy “The title doesn’t do the book justice. It’s not only about health care policy and its implications, it’s about the health care system, applied to highly clinically relevant situations...provides an unobstructed view of the complicated health care system.” Advance/PA The leading text in the field, Understanding Health Policy covers fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. The authors, who are leading health policy experts as well as practicing physicians, bring to life important policy issues by providing extensive case histories that pinpoint individual encounters within the health care system. Key Features: · Extensive vignettes drawn from authors’ practices illustrate impact of policy on care givers and patients · “Questions & Discussion Topics” for the classroom or individual study · New – Brand new chapter on the “Health Care Work Force” covering physicians, RNs, advanced practice nurses, pharmacists, and women and minorities in the health professions · New – Updates to discussions of insurance coverage, health care expenditures, and health care organization · New – Expanded to cover defined contribution approach to cost control; medical errors; new approaches to quality improvement; and the uncertain future of managed care

From the Back Cover

"This highly readable text gives a broad but detailed picture of how health care is organized and dispensed in the United States. It considers the problems of, and possible solutions for, cost control, long-term care, quality control, ethical issues, and insurance programs. Clinicians are likely to find the text attractive because of its supportive flowcharts and its frequent use of specific, concrete examples."
Annals of Internal Medicine *
"Well documented and highly readable."
National Organization of Nurse Practitioner Facilities Newsletter *

"One of the more interesting, readable texts in health policy to appear in recent years."
American Journal of Health System Pharmacy *

"The title doesn't do the book justice. It's not only about health care policy and its implications, it's about the health care system, applied to highly clinically relevant situations . . . it provides an unobstructed view of the complicated health care system."
Advance/PA*

"Goes a long way toward helping readers understand how the health care system worked in the past, how it is changing, and how it might work under different scenarios in the future."
Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law *

The leading text in the field, Understanding Health Policy covers fundamental topics such as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. The authors bring to life important policy issues by providing extensive case histories that pinpoint individual encounters within the health care system.

Features:
* Updated throughout to reflect recent changes in insurance coverage, health care expenditures, and health care organization
* Expanded to include discussion of the defined contribution approach to cost control, medical errors, and new approaches to quality improvement and the uncertain future facing managed care
* Extensive case histories
* Brand new chapter on the Health Care Work Force, including sections on physicians, registered nurses, advanced practice nurses, and pharmacists and on women and minorities in the health professions
* Includes "Questions and Discussion Topics" for classroom or individual study

*Of earlier edition

Edition details

• Publisher: Appleton & Lange
• Publication date: 1995
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0838536786
• ISBN 13: 9780838536780
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 300