Teaching hospitals and the urban poor /
Academic health centres (AHCs) have played a key role in propelling the United States to world leadership in technological advances in medicine. At the same time, however, many of these urban-based hospitals have largely ignored the medical care of their poor neighbours. Now one of the leading exper...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New Haven :
Yale University Press,
©2000.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | Academic health centres (AHCs) have played a key role in propelling the United States to world leadership in technological advances in medicine. At the same time, however, many of these urban-based hospitals have largely ignored the medical care of their poor neighbours. Now one of the leading experts in American health policy and economics ponders whether current and proposed changes in the financing and delivery of medical care will result in a realignment between AHCs and the poor. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (x, 129 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
ISBN: | 9780300133011 0300133014 1281731226 9781281731227 |