Inescapable Decisions: The Imperatives of Health ReformTransaction Publishers - 296 pages "Inescapable Decisions" examines the disarray in the American health care system and proposes major corrective strategies. Mechanic shows that the high-technology interventionist type of medicine commonly practiced in the United States has lost its sense of priorities and balance. Expensive and sometimes dangerous procedures of unknown efficacy are used excessively and often inappropriately, while many basic preventive and primary care services remain unavailable to those who need them the most. This incredibly complex system of care operates in an environment of heavy-landed rules and regulations and enormous waste of resources. |
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Page viii
... future problems , one that brings the disadvantaged into the mainstream of health concerns . This path - breaking book will be of wide in- terest to health care officials , policymakers , and professionals in so- cial welfare ...
... future problems , one that brings the disadvantaged into the mainstream of health concerns . This path - breaking book will be of wide in- terest to health care officials , policymakers , and professionals in so- cial welfare ...
Page xiii
... future rationing must involve a blend of ap- proaches , and the real debate should focus on how to best achieve a proper mix . The second set of essays begins to define what I mean by a new health paradigm . I examine current research ...
... future rationing must involve a blend of ap- proaches , and the real debate should focus on how to best achieve a proper mix . The second set of essays begins to define what I mean by a new health paradigm . I examine current research ...
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... future , it is inevitable that the debate will be broadened again . Financing structures are essential conditions for enabling the processes of care , but within any framework there are innumerable questions of values and objectives and ...
... future , it is inevitable that the debate will be broadened again . Financing structures are essential conditions for enabling the processes of care , but within any framework there are innumerable questions of values and objectives and ...
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Contents
The American Medical Care System | 3 |
Sources of Countervailing Power in Medicine | 53 |
Professional Judgment and the Rationing of Medical Care | 69 |
Conceptions of Health | 101 |
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Inescapable Decisions | 229 |
Medical Sociology Some Tensions between Theory Method and Substance | 249 |
The Role of Sociology in Health Affairs | 275 |
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References to this book
A Call to Be Whole: The Fundamentals of Health Care Reform Barbara J. Sowada No preview available - 2003 |
Choice, Behavioral Economics, and Addiction Rudolph Eugene Vuchinich,Nick Heather Limited preview - 2003 |