Introduction to health services
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Introduction to health services
(Wiley series in health services)
Wiley, c1988
3rd ed
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"A Wiley medical publication."
Includes bibliographies and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
The new edition of this successful health services text employs an analytical approach and framework to discuss the history and current practices of the US health care system. It includes new material which focuses on recent developments such as new systems of health care, the competitive health care marketplace, financing services, long-term health care and authorities in their respective fields. Chapters fall into five sections: overview of the health services system, causes and characteristics of health services use in the United States, providers of health services, resources for health services, assessing and regulating system performance, and health care policies and practice.
Table of Contents
- OVERVIEW OF THE HEALTH SERVICES SYSTEM: Historical Evolution and Overview of Health Services in the US
- CAUSES AND CHARACTERISTICS OF HEALTH SERVICES USE IN THE UNITED STATES: The Physiologic and Psychologic Bases of Health, Disease and Care Seeking
- PROVIDERS OF HEALTH SERVICES: Public Health Services - Background and Present Status
- Ambulatory Health Care Services
- The Hospital
- The Continuum of Long-Term Care
- Mental Health Services: Growth and Development of a System
- RESOURCES FOR HEALTH SERVICES: Medical Technology and Its Assessment
- Health Professionals
- Financing Health Services
- ASSESSING AND REGULATING SYSTEM PERFORMANCE: Health Services Planning and Regulation
- The Quality of Health Care
- Evaluating Health Care Programs and Services
- HEALTH CARE POLICIES AND POLITICS: Health Policy and the Politics of Health Care
- Epilogue
- Issues for the Future
- Index.
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