03542cam a2200481 i 4500 23207359 CSPC 20260903213744.0 230628s2024 nyua b 001 0 eng 2023030436 9781265905026 23207359 DNLM/DLC eng rda DLC DLC CSPC pcc RA418 .B576 2024 WA 540 AA1 362.1 B632u 23/eng/20230727 Bodenheimer, Thomas, author. Understanding health policy : a clinical approach / Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach, and Rachel Willard-Grace. Ninth edition. New York : McGraw Hill, 2024. vii, 247 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm. text txt rdacontent unmediated n rdamedia volume nc rdacarrier "A Lange medical book." Includes bibliographical references and index. Introduction: the strengths and weaknesses of US health care -- Section I: Financing and payment - how money moves -- Paying for health care -- Health insurance and access to health care -- Paying health care providers -- Section II: Equity and resource allocation -- Health equity -- Medical ethics and rationing of health care -- Section III: The organization of health care -- How health care is organized-I: primary, secondary and tertiary care -- How health care is organized-II: health care delivery systems -- The health care workforce and the education of health professionals -- Long-term care -- Section IV: Cost, quality, and value -- Painful versus painless cost control -- Mechanisms for controlling costs -- Quality of health care -- Population health and disease prevention -- Section V: The political economy of health care -- Health care in four nations -- Health care reform and national health insurance -- The business of US health care -- Section VI: Conclusion and study guide -- Conclusion: tensions and challenges -- Questions to assess understanding. "This is a book about health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system. When treating a patient's illness, health expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product or variations in surgical rates between one city and another seem remote if not irrelevant-but they are neither remote nor irrelevant. Health policy affects the patients we see on a daily basis. Managed care referral rules determine which specialist will see a patient; coverage gaps in the Medicare benefit package affects access to care for the elderly. Understanding Health Policy hopes to bridge the gap separating the microworld of individual patient care and the macrouniverse of health policy"-- Provided by publisher. Health Policy. Health Care Costs. Health Care Rationing. Health Care Reform. Health Equity National Health Insurance, United States United States Grumbach, Kevin, author. Willard-Grace, Rachel, author. 7 cbc orignew 1 ecip 20 y-gencatlg ddc BK 362.1 B632u GRD 2024 0 23 0 0 ddc 0 0 CSPC CSPC GRD 2026-09-04 0 GRD 362.1 B632u 2024 032398 2026-09-02 02:09:30 1-1 2026-09-04 BK 33107 33107