Rethinking health care : innovation and change in America / by Max Heirich.

Title
  1. Rethinking health care : innovation and change in America / by Max Heirich.
Published by
  1. Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.
Author
  1. Heirich, Max.

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Description
  1. xi, 452 pages; 24 cm
Summary
  1. 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.
  2. 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.
Subject
  1. Delivery of Health Care > economics
  2. United States
  3. Health Care Reform
  4. Medical care > United States
  5. Socioeconomic Factors
  6. Delivery of Health Care > organization & administration
  7. Health care reform > United States
  8. Medical policy > United States
Contents
  1. Introduction: The Deepening Crisis -- Ch. 1. Understanding How We Got Here: Creating a Health-Care Industry -- Ch. 2. First Efforts at Cost Control -- Ch. 3. Health-Care Innovation in a Rapidly Changing World Economy -- Ch. 4. The 1990s: Efforts at More Basic Reform in a New World Order -- Ch. 5. Contending Strategies for Reform: Underlying Principles, Unanticipated Consequences, and Unmet Problems -- Ch. 6. Origins of New Health-Care Perspectives -- Ch. 7. Holistic Health -- Ch. 8. Prevention and Health Promotion: Industry, the Government, and Foundations Innovate -- Ch. 9. Understanding the Ecology of Health and Disease -- Ch. 10. Reapproaching Health: Next Steps -- Ch. 11. Reapproaching Problems of Cost -- Ch. 12. Reapproaching Problems of Access.
Owning institution
  1. Columbia University Libraries
Bibliography (note)
  1. Includes bibliographical references and index.