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 Chicago Area Health Care Choices written by Marc S. Miller and published by Families USA Foundation. This book was released on 1996-03 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Informs consumers of the quality standards, performance records, and pricing structures of health care in the Chicago area.
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 Big Med written by David Dranove and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2022-11-18 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is little debate that health care in the United States is in need of reform. But where should those improvements begin? With insurers? Drug makers? The doctors themselves? In Big Med, David Dranove and Lawton Robert Burns argue that we’re overlooking the most ubiquitous cause of our costly and underperforming system: megaproviders, the expansive health care organizations that have become the face of American medicine. Your local hospital is likely part of one. Your doctors, too. And the megaproviders are bad news for your health and your wallet. Drawing on decades of combined expertise in health care consolidation, Dranove and Burns trace Big Med’s emergence in the 1990s, followed by its swift rise amid false promises of scale economies and organizational collaboration. In the decades since, megaproviders have gobbled up market share and turned independent physicians into salaried employees of big bureaucracies, while delivering on none of their early promises. For patients this means higher costs and lesser care. Meanwhile, physicians report increasingly low morale, making it all but impossible for most systems to implement meaningful reforms. In Big Med, Dranove and Burns combine their respective skills in economics and management to provide a nuanced explanation of how the provision of health care has been corrupted and submerged under consolidation. They offer practical recommendations for improving competition policies that would reform megaproviders to actually achieve the efficiencies and quality improvements they have long promised. This is an essential read for understanding the current state of the health care system in America—and the steps urgently needed to create an environment of better care for all of us.
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Download or read book Making Health Care Decisions written by United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Future of the Public s Health in the 21st Century written by Institute of Medicine and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2003-02-01 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The anthrax incidents following the 9/11 terrorist attacks put the spotlight on the nation's public health agencies, placing it under an unprecedented scrutiny that added new dimensions to the complex issues considered in this report. The Future of the Public's Health in the 21st Century reaffirms the vision of Healthy People 2010, and outlines a systems approach to assuring the nation's health in practice, research, and policy. This approach focuses on joining the unique resources and perspectives of diverse sectors and entities and challenges these groups to work in a concerted, strategic way to promote and protect the public's health. Focusing on diverse partnerships as the framework for public health, the book discusses: The need for a shift from an individual to a population-based approach in practice, research, policy, and community engagement. The status of the governmental public health infrastructure and what needs to be improved, including its interface with the health care delivery system. The roles nongovernment actors, such as academia, business, local communities and the media can play in creating a healthy nation. Providing an accessible analysis, this book will be important to public health policy-makers and practitioners, business and community leaders, health advocates, educators and journalists.
Download or read book Making Health Care Decisions Report written by United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Making Health Care Decisions Appendices written by United States. President's Commission for the Study of Ethical Problems in Medicine and Biomedical and Behavioral Research and published by . This book was released on 1982 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book The Promise and Peril of Environmental Justice written by Christopher H. Foreman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are we environmentally victimizing, perhaps even poisoning, our minority and low-income citizens? Proponents of "environmental justice" assert that environmental decisionmaking pays insufficient heed to the interests of those citizens, disproportionately burdens their neighborhoods with hazardous toxins, and perpetuates an insidious "environmental racism." In the first book-length critique of environmental justice advocacy, Christopher Foreman argues that it has cleared significant political hurdles but displays substantial limitations and drawbacks. Activism has yielded a presidential executive order, management reforms at the Environmental Protection Agency, and numerous local political victories. Yet the environmental justice movement is structurally and ideologically unable to generate a focused policy agenda. The movement refuses to confront the need for environmental priorities and trade-offs, politically inconvenient facts about environmental health risks, and the limits of an environmental approach to social justice. Ironically, environmental justice advocacy may also threaten the very constituencies it aspires to serve--distracting attention from the many significant health hazards challenging minority and disadvantaged populations. Foreman recommends specific institutional reforms intended to recast the national dialogue about the stakes of these populations in environmental protection.
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