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Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 5e

Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach

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CONTENTS

Chapter 1	Introduction: The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation
Chapter 2	Paying for Health Care
Chapter 3	Access to Health Care
Chapter 4	Reimbursing Health Care Providers
Chapter 5	How Health Care is Organized—I
Chapter 6	How Health Care is Organized—II
Chapter 7	The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals
Chapter 8	Painful versus Painless Cost Control
Chapter 9	Mechanisms for Controlling Costs
Chapter 10	Quality of Health Care
Chapter 11	Prevention of Illness
Chapter 12	Long-Term Care
Chapter 13	Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care
Chapter 14	Health Care in Four Nations
Chapter 15	National Health Insurance
Chapter 16	Conflict and Change in America's Health Care System
Chapter 17	Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges
Chapter 18	Questions and Discussion Topics

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