Download or read book Healthcare Choices written by Archelle Georgiou and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2017-02-16 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Making healthcare decisions is hard, but making the right choices has never mattered more. Healthcare Choices: 5 Steps to Getting the Care You Want and Needgives you the tools you need to choose the best medical care—for you. Archelle Georgiou, MD, explainsher CARES model, the formula she developed to help family, friends, and thousands of television viewers make smart healthcare decisions that balance the best medical options with individual preferences. Using more than 30 real-life stories and insider tips, she demonstrates how to use this step-by-step guide to access the medical information you need to evaluate your options and make well-informed choices. Whether you are addressing a life-threatening illness, self-managing a minor ailment, selecting a doctor, or buying insurance, Georgiou’s roadmap shows you how to be an active participant in your care. Her “go to” approach describes how to: Identify all treatment options for an illness, including those not mentioned by your doctor. Make treatment decisions that reflect your priorities and preferences. Find the best doctor to treat your condition. Communicate with your doctor and make shared treatment decisions. Choose the health insurance plan that’s right for you. Maintain a voice in your lifestyle as you age. Healthcare Choiceswill give you the confidence to advocate for the healthcare you want, need, and deserve.
Download or read book Health Care Choices written by Clark C. Havighurst and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 1995 with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This text argues that private contracts would allow for more and genuine consumer choice, based on real differences between competing health plans in content, mixture and cost of services. It further argues that contracts would establish set standards and obligations for all parties.
Download or read book Stay Healthy Live Longer Spend Wisely written by Davis Liu and published by Stetho Publishing. This book was released on 2008 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Liu (a physician with the Permanente Medical Group) offers a practical guide to getting the most benefit from the health care system while saving time and money. The author provides real life examples from his experiences in helping his family and patients avoid common mistakes.
Download or read book Care Without Coverage written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-06-20 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many Americans believe that people who lack health insurance somehow get the care they really need. Care Without Coverage examines the real consequences for adults who lack health insurance. The study presents findings in the areas of prevention and screening, cancer, chronic illness, hospital-based care, and general health status. The committee looked at the consequences of being uninsured for people suffering from cancer, diabetes, HIV infection and AIDS, heart and kidney disease, mental illness, traumatic injuries, and heart attacks. It focused on the roughly 30 million-one in seven-working-age Americans without health insurance. This group does not include the population over 65 that is covered by Medicare or the nearly 10 million children who are uninsured in this country. The main findings of the report are that working-age Americans without health insurance are more likely to receive too little medical care and receive it too late; be sicker and die sooner; and receive poorer care when they are in the hospital, even for acute situations like a motor vehicle crash.
Download or read book Health Care Choices written by Priscilla Alderson and published by Institute for Public Policy Research. This book was released on 1996 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Incentives and Choice in Health Care written by Frank A. Sloan and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2008-05-16 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading scholars in the field of health economics evaluate the role of incentives in health and health-care decision making from the perspectives of both supply and demand. A vast body of empirical evidence has accumulated demonstrating that incentives affect health care choices made by both consumers and suppliers of health care services. Decisions in health care are affected by many types of incentives, such as the rate of return pharmaceutical manufacturers expect on their investments in research and development, or disincentives, such as increases in copayments patients must make when they visit physicians or are admitted to hospitals. In this volume, leading scholars in health economics review these new and important results and describe their own recent research assessing the role of incentives in health care markets and decisions people make that affect their personal health. The contexts include demand decisions—choices made by individuals about health care services they consume and the health insurance policies they purchase—and supply decisions made by medical students, practicing physicians, hospitals, and pharmaceutical manufacturers. Researchers and students of health economics and policy makers will find this book a valuable resource, both for learning economic concepts, particularly as they apply to health care, and for reading up-to-date summaries of the empirical evidence. General readers will find the book's chapters accessible, interesting, and useful for gaining an understanding of the likely effects of alternative health care policies. Contributors Henry J. Aaron, Ernst R. Berndt, John Cawley, Julie M. Donohue, Donna Gilleskie, Brian R. Golden, Gautam Gowrisankaran, Chee-Ruey Hsieh, Hirschel Kasper, Thomas G. McGuire, Joseph P. Newhouse, Sean Nicholson, Mark V. Pauly, Anna D. Sinaiko, Frank Sloan
Download or read book Health Care Choices for Today s Consumer written by Marc S. Miller and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 471 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Admirable . . . clearly written, well organized . . . easy and helpful." --Washington Post "This is the surefire guide to making critical decisions about your family's health." --Dr. J. Larry Brown, Professor of Nutrition and Health Policy School of Nutrition, Tufts University "The array of choices and decisions facing consumers in health care today is incredibly complicated. Families USA has taken on the challenge of making this complex world accessible to the most important person in the process: the consumer. They've succeeded brilliantly!" --Dick Davidson, President, American Hospital Association. Now completely revised and expanded, this indispensable reference provides in-depth, up-to-the-minute coverage of major health care issues to help you make crucial choices for you and your family. Packed with vital facts and figures, illuminating advice, and invaluable tips, Health Care Choices for Today's Consumer includes: * New chapters on men's health as well as prescription and over-the-counter drugs * The latest on health care finance, managed care, alternative medicine, and wellness programs * Updated financial, legal, and insurance information * Important details on such topics as consumer rights, primary care, mental health, medications, hospitals, and physicians.
Download or read book Discussions written by Patsy Barnes and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2013-06-18 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The title of this booklet is Discussions because there is a real need to have some of these discussions when you are a complex or chronically ill patient. These need to take place between the patient and physician, the patient and family, and the patient and caregivers. It is not enough to say that those close to you understand what you would want in certain situations. It is amazing, although the subjects are diffi cult, that people handicap and burden others to make decisions about health care while never talking about these diffi cult topics. Some people feel that if they are discussed, then they will occur, much as people ignore talking about death, not wishing to tempt it into occurring. Presented in this pamphlet are very diffi cult but very important subjects that should be discussed more than once, and many should be ongoing discussions with caregivers and physicians. Many patients feel that if these discussions are so important, the doctor should bring them up and begin the talk. However, physicians are not trained to begin these discussions any more than patients are trained to do so, and the lack of communication on so vital a subject as types of treatment choices or feeding tubes can become critical decisions for others to make in chronically ill patients.
Download or read book Healthcare Choices Information and Health Outcomes written by Achyuta Adhvaryu and published by . This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Your Guide to Choosing Quality Health Care written by and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Health Care Choices for Today s Consumer written by Families USA Foundation and published by Wiley. This book was released on 1997-07-25 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Admirable . . . clearly written, well organized . . . easy and helpful." --Washington Post "This is the surefire guide to making critical decisions about your family's health." --Dr. J. Larry Brown, Professor of Nutrition and Health Policy School of Nutrition, Tufts University "The array of choices and decisions facing consumers in health care today is incredibly complicated. Families USA has taken on the challenge of making this complex world accessible to the most important person in the process: the consumer. They've succeeded brilliantly!" --Dick Davidson, President, American Hospital Association. Now completely revised and expanded, this indispensable reference provides in-depth, up-to-the-minute coverage of major health care issues to help you make crucial choices for you and your family. Packed with vital facts and figures, illuminating advice, and invaluable tips, Health Care Choices for Today's Consumer includes: * New chapters on men's health as well as prescription and over-the-counter drugs * The latest on health care finance, managed care, alternative medicine, and wellness programs * Updated financial, legal, and insurance information * Important details on such topics as consumer rights, primary care, mental health, medications, hospitals, and physicians.
Download or read book The American Geriatrics Society s Complete Guide to Aging Health written by Mark E. Williams and published by Harmony. This book was released on 1995 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The essential reference for all aging Americans and their families, and the most important, comprehensive, and useful guide of its kind ever published. Covers: how we age, how to make wise health-care decisions, alternatives for long-term care, and aging and public policy.
Download or read book Choice Matters written by Gordon Moore and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Choice Matters is the healthcare sector's guide to understanding and delivering the brand of consumer-centered care that is an imperative for the Zocdoc age. Drawing on the authors' diverse backgrounds in medicine, business, and public policy, this practically-oriented resource offers an on-the-ground introduction for clinicians and managers to better understand the differences between healthcare and other consumer-driven markets, what factors are most important for consumers in seeking care providers, how consumers make decisions about healthcare, the system-wide effects of increased consumer choice in healthcare, [and] the important distinction between patients and consumers"--
Download or read book The Health Care Choice Act written by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Energy and Commerce. Subcommittee on Health and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Guide to Navigating Healthcare Choices written by Patsy Barnes and published by Tate Publishing & Enterprises. This book was released on 2014-06-03 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: You or your loved one has just been diagnosed with a chronic illness, or worse, a terminal illness. All of a sudden, there are decisions to be made and discussions that need to take place. Are you prepared? Do you even know where to start? Discussions: A Guide to Navigating Healthcare Choices is the answer. Read this book and refer to it often. As the baby boomers age and grow into illness, they will want an easy guide to navigating and understanding all of the healthcare avenues available. They will want to know what the treatment options are and how to make good choices for themselves in a very confusing and overwhelming healthcare system.
Download or read book Health Care Decisions as a Family Matter written by Magnus Lindelöw and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2004 with total page 31 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Logic of Care written by Annemarie Mol and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008-05-24 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is ‘good care’ and does more choice lead to better care? This innovative and compelling work investigates good care and argues that the often touted ideal of ‘patient choice’ will not improve healthcare in the ways hoped for by its advocates.
