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" Analyzing form, function, and financing of the U.S. health care system / "
Paula Stamps Duston.
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204452
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b114642
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Duston, Paula Stamps
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Analyzing form, function, and financing of the U.S. health care system /\ Paula Stamps Duston.
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1 online resource.
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9781482236545 (electronic bk.)
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: 1482236540 (electronic bk.)
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: 9781482236538
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: 1482236532
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Definitions of health and illness -- Public health : defining determinants of health -- Health status indicators -- Role of culture in the organization of health care systems -- Political and philosophical values that influence the US health care system -- Do we have as system? -- People who make the medical care system go : the workforce -- Hospitals -- Ambulatory care settings : functions, structures and services -- Other parts of the medical care system : functions and services -- Health economics 101 : do health care goods and services follow the economic rules? -- From economics to health policy and regulation -- Health care financing : health insurance -- Health insurance : two models -- The payment function : money moving through the system -- Why does medical care cost so much and what can we do about it? -- Health care reform : past as prologue -- Taking care of the elderly : Medicare -- Taking care of the poor : Medicaid -- Taking care of almost everybody else : other targeted -- Programs -- A persistent problem : racial and ethnic -- Disparities in health outcomes -- Alternate models for health care systems : international -- Perspectives.
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Medical economics-- United States.
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Health care reform-- United States.
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368.38/200973
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RA412.2.D87 2016
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W 84 AA1
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