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 xiii
... persons with mental illness , and the elderly . Each of these populations exemplify the failures of our current medical care paradigm and the need for a new approach . The challenge in adolescence is the " new morbidity . " Adolescents ...
... persons with mental illness , and the elderly . Each of these populations exemplify the failures of our current medical care paradigm and the need for a new approach . The challenge in adolescence is the " new morbidity . " Adolescents ...
Page xiv
... persons with physical disabilities , mental illness , developmental disabilities , and the like . As the inevitable political compromises take place in efforts to achieve a reasonable consensus , great care must be taken to insure that ...
... persons with physical disabilities , mental illness , developmental disabilities , and the like . As the inevitable political compromises take place in efforts to achieve a reasonable consensus , great care must be taken to insure that ...
Page 11
... person households with few social supports . Religion is a less powerful influence on people's lives , and problems that in the past would have been appropriate for the family or the church to deal with require human services ...
... person households with few social supports . Religion is a less powerful influence on people's lives , and problems that in the past would have been appropriate for the family or the church to deal with require human services ...
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... persons in the age group over eighty - five increased 174 percent , and a 110 percent increase is expected between 1980 and the end of the century ( Rice and Feldman 1983 ) . By the year 2000 , more than one - quarter of the expected ...
... persons in the age group over eighty - five increased 174 percent , and a 110 percent increase is expected between 1980 and the end of the century ( Rice and Feldman 1983 ) . By the year 2000 , more than one - quarter of the expected ...
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... persons with long nursing stays against impoverishment . The federal government , under this proposal , would subsidize persons with low incomes . The Commis- sion estimated that the program would cover 4.4 million people at an ...
... persons with long nursing stays against impoverishment . The federal government , under this proposal , would subsidize persons with low incomes . The Commis- sion estimated that the program would cover 4.4 million people at an ...
Contents
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Sources of Countervailing Power in Medicine | 53 |
Professional Judgment and the Rationing of Medical Care | 69 |
Conceptions of Health | 101 |
Promoting Health and Independence | 119 |
Socioeconomic Status and Health | 137 |
Adolescents at Risk | 153 |
Deinstitutionalization of the Mentally Ill Efforts for Inclusion | 165 |
Health Care for an Aging Population | 213 |
Inescapable Decisions | 229 |
Medical Sociology Some Tensions between Theory Method and Substance | 249 |
The Role of Sociology in Health Affairs | 275 |
Index | 291 |
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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 |