Rethinking health care : innovation and change in America
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Rethinking health care : innovation and change in America
Westview Press, c1998
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [365]-435) and index
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Rethinking Health Care explains that the context for the reorganization of U.S. health care over the last several decades has been set by broader developments in the national and international political economies and shows how these health care developments have, in turn, affected the larger social and economic transformations that were occurring. From this standpoint, it is possible to see how the health care industry evolved and why the wide range of efforts to reform health care and control its cost dynamic has failed. The author also contrasts the disease-oriented health care industry with a series of national and international developments that refocus attention from disease care to health care. } Rethinking Health Care explains that the context for the reorganization of U.S. health care over the last several decades has been set by broader developments in the national and international political economies and shows how these health care developments have, in turn, affected the larger social and economic transformations that were occurring.
From this standpoint, it is possible to see how the health care industry evolved and why the wide range of efforts to reform health care and control its cost dynamic has failed. The author also contrasts the disease-oriented health care industry with a series of national and international developments that refocus attention from disease care to health care. }
Table of Contents
- Introduction: The Deepening Crisis
- Understanding How We Got Here: Creating a Health Care Industry
- First Efforts at Cost Control
- Health Care Innovation in a Rapidly Changing World Economy
- The 1990s: Efforts at More Basic Reform in a New World Order
- Contending Strategies for Reform: Underlying Principles, Unanticipated Consequences, and Unmet ProbleMs. Origins of New Health Care Perspectives
- Holistic Health
- Prevention and Health Promotion: Industry, the Government, and Foundation Innovate
- Understanding the Ecology of Health and Disease
- Reapproaching Health: Next Steps
- Reapproaching Problems of Cost
- Reapproaching Problems of Access
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