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The truth about health care : why reform is not working in America / David Mechanic.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Critical issues in health and medicinePublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2006]Copyright date: ©2006Description: xi, 228 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0813538874
  • 9780813538877
  • 0813543525
  • 9780813543529
Other title:
  • Why reform is not working in America
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10425 22
LOC classification:
  • RA395.A3 M4184 2006
Contents:
Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Our health dilemma -- ch. 1. Is reform possible? : the need for change and forces against it -- ch. 2. What is disease and what should we treat? -- ch. 3. Saving lives individually or in populations -- ch. 4. The murky challenge of mental health -- ch. 5. The activated patient and the doctors' dilemma -- ch. 6. The neglect of long-term care -- pt. 2. The struggle for solutions -- ch. 7. The quest for quality -- ch. 8. Setting fair limits -- ch. 9. Restoring trust in the health system -- pt. 3. The fork in the road -- ch. 10. The challenge of change -- ch. 11. Steps in our health future -- Notes -- Index.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 189-210) and index.

Preface -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Our health dilemma -- ch. 1. Is reform possible? : the need for change and forces against it -- ch. 2. What is disease and what should we treat? -- ch. 3. Saving lives individually or in populations -- ch. 4. The murky challenge of mental health -- ch. 5. The activated patient and the doctors' dilemma -- ch. 6. The neglect of long-term care -- pt. 2. The struggle for solutions -- ch. 7. The quest for quality -- ch. 8. Setting fair limits -- ch. 9. Restoring trust in the health system -- pt. 3. The fork in the road -- ch. 10. The challenge of change -- ch. 11. Steps in our health future -- Notes -- Index.

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