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An Introduction to the US Health Care Industry : Balancing Care, Cost, and Access /
"Guzick's premise is that the United States has a health care industry as opposed to a health care system. His book is organized around three elements of health care delivery: access, quality, and cost. He introduces the economic principles behind the function and dysfunction of the health...
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Health and Health Care over the Past Century
- Perfect Competition and its Applicability to Health Care Services
- Imperfections in the Market for Health Care Services
- Implications of an Imperfect Market I : Greater Utilization Due to Price Subsidies
- Implications of an Imperfect Market II : The Role of Induced Demand
- The Role of Price in Health Care Spending Growth
- Inequality of Wealth, Health, and Access to Care
- Origins and Structural Underpinnings of the US Health Care Industry
- The US Health Care Industry Takes Shape : The 1940s through 1965
- Medicare
- Medicaid
- The Affordable Care Act
- Evidence-Based Practice
- Cost-Benefit, Cost-Effectiveness, and Cost-Utility Analysis
- Health Care Law
- The Safety and Quality of Patient Care
- The Cost Conundrum I : Utilization
- The Cost Conundrum II : Price: Administration, Insurers, Physicians, and Hospitals
- The Cost Conundrum III : Price: Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices
- Inequality of Access
- Improving the Balance I : Macro Considerations
- Improving the Balance II : Enhancing Care, Reducing Cost, and Improving Access.