Market-Based Health Care - All Myth, No Reality

Market-Based Health Care defines for students the challenges, arguments and politics behind the concept of consumer-driven health care

List of contents

Chapter one Introduction
Chapter two The Market-based Health Care Model
Chapter three The Market for Health Insurance
Chapter four Government Intervention and Health Insurance
Chapter five Doctors
Chapter six Hospitals
Chapter seven Pharmaceuticals
Chapter eight Health Sector Occupations and Organizations
Chapter nine Market-based Health Care - the Model and the Reality

About the author

Grace Budrys is professor emerita at DePaul University. She consults closely with government and non-profit health care related organizations on the topic of market based health care. She is still active in academic research and is considered one of the fields leading medical sociologists. She chaired the committee that created the Master of Public Health program and served as director for the Public Services Master Program, and was a professor in the Department of Sociology. Her books include Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health or Illness and How Nonprofits Work: Case Studies in Nonprofit Organizations.

Summary

Market-Based Health Care will define for students the challenges, arguments and politics behind the concept of consumer driven health care

Product details

• Authors: Grace Budrys
• Publisher: Rowman and Littlefield
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.10.2019
• EAN: 9781538128350
• ISBN: 978-1-5381-2835-0
• No. of pages: 254
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); HEALTH & FITNESS / General, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Human Services, Popular medicine & health, Social welfare & social services, Social welfare and social services, Popular medicine and health, Health systems & services, Health systems and services