Understanding Health Services (Understanding Public Health)

No single discipline can provide a full account of how and why health care is the way it is. This book provides you with a series of conceptual frameworks which help to unravel the apparent complexity that confronts the inexperienced observer. It demonstrates the need for contributions from medicine, sociology, economics, history and epidemiology. It also shows the necessity to consider health care at three key levels: individual patients and their experiences; health care organisations such as health centres and hospitals; and regional and national institutions such as governments and health insurance bodies. The book examines: inputs to health services, processes of care, outcomes, organization of services and improving the quality of health care.Written by authorities in Public Health, Understanding Health Services (Understanding Public Health) by Nick Black and Reinhold Gruen provides an excellent foundation for Public Health studies. Nick Black and Reinhold Gruen's style is excellently suited towards Public Health studies, 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 9780335218387), as well as a number of other formats. As of August 2005, this revision raises the bar for Understanding Health Services (Understanding Public Health)'s high standard of excellence, making sure that it stays one of the foremost Public Health studies textbooks