Rethinking health care : innovation and change in America /

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Author / Creator:Heirich, Max.
Imprint:Boulder, Colo. : Westview Press, 1998.
Description:xi, 452 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2945950
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ISBN:0813334543 (alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-435) and index.
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgement
  • Introduction The Deepening Crisis
  • 1. Understanding How We Got Here: Creating a Health-Care Industry
  • 2. First Efforts at Cost Control
  • 3. Health-Care Innovation in a Rapidly Changing World Economy
  • 4. The 1990s
  • 5. Contending Strategies for Reform: Underlying Principles, Unanticipated Consequences, and Unmet Problems
  • 6. Origins New Health-Care Perspectives
  • 7. Holistic Health
  • 8. Prevention and Health Promotion: Industry, the Government and Foundations Innovate
  • 9. Understanding the Ecology of Health and Disease
  • 10. Reapproaching Health: Next Steps
  • 11. Reapproaching Problems of Cost
  • 12. Reapproaching Problems of Access
  • In Conclusion
  • Appendix: Tables
  • Chapter Notes
  • References
  • Index