Rethinking Health Care: Innovation And Change In America

by Max Heirich

Overview

Rethinking Health Care explains that the context for the reorganization of U.S. health care over the last several decades has been set by broader developments in the national and international political economies and shows how these health care developments have, in turn, affected the larger social and economic transformations that were occurring.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781000309928
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/12/2019
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	464
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Max Heirich is professor of sociology at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and the co-author of Health Policy: Understanding Our Choices from National Reform to Market Force ( 1997).

Table of Contents

Introduction -- Understanding How We Got Here: Creating a Health-Care Industry -- First Efforts at Cost Control -- Health-Care Innovation in a Rapidly Changing World Economy -- The 1990s: Efforts at More Basic Reform in a New World Order -- Contending Strategies for Reform: Underlying Principles, Unanticiapated Consequences, and Unmet Problems -- Origins of New Health-Care Perspectives -- Holistic Health -- Prevention and Health Promotion: Industry, the Government and Foundations Innovate -- Understanding the Ecology of Health and Disease -- Reapproaching Health: Next Steps -- Reapproaching Problems of Cost -- Reapproaching Problems of Access -- In Conclusion -- Appendix: Tables

Editorial Reviews

Addresses the context for the reorganization of US health care in terms of its having been set by broader developments in the national and international political economies which have, in turn, affected the larger social and economic transformations. Begins with an introduction concerning the deepening crisis, followed by 13 chapters which discuss creating a health-care industry, first efforts at cost control, innovation in a rapidly changing world economy, efforts at more basic reform in the 1990's, contending strategies, origins of new perspectives, holistic health, prevention and health promotion, the ecology of health and disease, and reapproaching health and problems of cost and access. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.

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