Health care and public policy / David Reisman.

• Introduction: A Thing Apart? -- Health Status and Health Care -- Health Status -- Health Care -- Health Capital -- Prosperity and Progress -- Needs and Wants -- The Patient -- The Practitioner -- The Public -- Payment for Health -- The Logic of Insurance -- Private Health Insurance -- The State Sector -- Payment beyond Insurance -- The Value of Life -- The Patient -- The Practitioner -- The Public -- Efficiency -- Medical Effectiveness -- Cost-Effectiveness Analysis -- The Cost-Benefit Approach -- Utility -- The Patient -- The Practitioner -- The Public -- Equity and Equality -- Equality and Health -- A Human Right -- Maximin -- Generosity and Compassion -- The Structural Imperative -- Equality and Health -- Social Distance -- Geographical Location -- Narrowing the Gap: Social Policy -- Narrowing the Gap: Medical Care -- Cost -- Payment -- Social and Medical Change -- Countervailing Forces -- Conclusion: Containing the Cost -- Rationing by Money and Time -- Purchase and Provision -- State Intervention -- References -- Index.

Ämnesord

Medical policy.  (LCSH)

Medical policy  -- Economic aspects. (LCSH)

Economics, Medical.  (MeSH)

Health Policy  -- economics. (MeSH)

Sjukvårdspolitik  -- ekonomiska aspekter (sao)

Klassifikation

RA393 (LCC)

2007 I-977 (NLM)

W 74 (NLM)

362.1 (DDC)

44.10 (bcl)

Vp (kssb/8 (machine generated))