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Overview
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.
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Addresses the context for the reorganization of US health care in terms of its having been set by broader developments in the national and international political economies which have, in turn, affected the larger social and economic transformations. Begins with an introduction concerning the deepening crisis, followed by 13 chapters which discuss creating a health-care industry, first efforts at cost control, innovation in a rapidly changing world economy, efforts at more basic reform in the 1990's, contending strategies, origins of new perspectives, holistic health, prevention and health promotion, the ecology of health and disease, and reapproaching health and problems of cost and access. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.Book Details
Published
January 9, 1998
Publisher
Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.
Pages
452
Format
Hardcover
ISBN
9780813334547