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Supplemental materials are not guaranteed for textbooks (access codes, DVDs, workbooks.)Understanding Health Policy
Textbook Description:Already the number one text on health policy and rapidly becoming a classic, Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach 3E covers such fundamental topics as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment.... More »Already the number one text on health policy and rapidly becoming a classic, Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach 3E covers such fundamental topics as cost containment, health insurance, managed care, and physician and hospital payment. Extensive case histories, drawn from the authors' actual practice, bring to life important policy issues by pinpointing individual encounters within the healthcare system. New to this Edition * More information on 2-tier model of reimbursement * Greater emphasis on defined contribution approach to controlling costs * Includes comparative information on health care policy in Canada, the UK, and Germany * "Questions & Discussion Topics" provided for each chapter to stimulate classroom discussion Please consider this important new edition for your course. Your students will gain an engaging text, that according to a review by the Journal of Health, Politics, Policy, and Law of the prior edition, "goes a long way toward helping readers understand how the health care system has worked in the past, how it is changing, and how it might work under different scenarios in the future."Written by authorities in the subject, Understanding Health Policy by Thomas S. Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach provides an excellent foundation for your studies. Thomas S. Bodenheimer and Kevin Grumbach's style is excellently suited towards the topic, and will teach students the material clearly without overcomplicating the subject. What's more, the text is available in the Paperback format shown above (ISBN 9780071378154), as well as a number of other formats. As of December 2001, this revision raises the bar for Understanding Health Policy's high standard of excellence, making sure that it stays one of the foremost textbooks on the subjectSorry, there are no rentals currently available for this title. Check back soon!
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