Power and Illness - The Failure and Future of American Health Policy

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List of contents

Acknowledgments 

1. From Consensus to Disarray: A Century of Health Policy 
2. The Paradox of Health Policy, 1900-1950 
3. The Health Policy Compromise, 1950-1975 
4. Health Policy in Disarray, 1975-1993 
5. Prospects for Policy 

Note on Methods and Sources 
Notes 
Index

About the author

Daniel M. Fox is President of the Milbank Memorial Fund. His many books include Health Politics, Health Policies: The Experience of Britain and America, 1911-1965 (1986) and, as coeditor, AIDS: The Making of a Chronic Disease (California, 1992), and AIDS: The Burdens of History (California, 1988).

Summary

During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness. This book explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities. It discusses ideas about illness and health care.

Product details

• Authors: Daniel M Fox, Daniel M. Fox, Fox Daniel M.
• Assisted by: Daniel M. Fox (Editor)
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 09.02.1995
• EAN: 9780520201514
• ISBN: 978-0-520-20151-4
• No. of pages: 192
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Politics; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / American Government / National, United States of America, USA, Central / national / federal government policies, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Central government policies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Health Care