Dilemmas in health care
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Bibliographic Information
Dilemmas in health care
(Health and disease series, book 7)
Open University Press in association with the Open University, 1993
Available at 32 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Rev. and updated ed. of: Caring for health, 1985
Bibliography: p. 201-208
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This book considers the major dilemmas arising from funding, organization and delivery of health care in the United Kingdom in the 1990s. "Health care" is given the widest-possible definition stepping beyond the health service to include social, community, educational and government initiatives - in an analysis of the concepts on and opportunities for improving the nation's health. The authors come from a wide range of academic and research backgrounds in health and social care. They examine the dilemmas inherent in providing care that is simultaneously effective in alleviating disease and in promoting health, cost-effective in its use of financial and human resources, delivered equitably to those who need it, and humane in its treatment of service-users and health workers. A number of contemporary themes are explored: the management of limited resources; the evaluation of inputs and outcomes; the relative power of "consumers", doctors and managers, and the aspirations of the workforce; planning for the latest developments in medical technology; and balancing the provision of hospital, primary and community care, and the demand for curative and preventive services.
The book concludes by examining the prospects for social and fiscal policies to make an impact on health. "Dilemmas in Health Care" is a completely revised and updated version of the text "Caring for Health: Dilemmas and Prospects" published by Open University Press in 1985. Along with the other titles in this series, it should be useful reading for lay and professional health care workers with an interest in all aspects of health and health care, as well as students of the social sciences, medicine and nursing, social work and social policy.
Table of Contents
- Universalizing the best - an impossible dream?
- managing health care
- rationing and choice
- the evaluation of health care
- the consumer voice
- health work - divisions in health labour
- innovations in health care
- care in the community - rhetoric or reality
- disease prevention and health promotion
- coronary heart disease - a cautionary tale
- poverty, inequality and health.
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