Medicare Matters - What Geriatric Medicine Can Teach American Health Care

Informationen zum Autor Christine K. Cassel! M.D. ! is President and CEO of the American Board of Internal Medicine and ABIM Foundation. Klappentext "One of the great leaders of our time in American medicine tackles one of the great health-care issues of our generation: the design! fate! and principles of Medicare as a system. Care for our aging population and coverage through Medicare provide key testing grounds for our nation's moral and technical capacity to extend health and relieve suffering. Dr. Cassel is unique in her ability to bridge the worlds of clinical science! health-care policy! and social ethics as she helps us think through how best to meet that test. This book is a welcome guide and a clear charter for a nation that cares-or ought to care-deeply about addressing the needs of its aging population."-Donald M. Berwick! MD! MPP! President and CEO! Institute for Healthcare Improvement Zusammenfassung Draws upon the developments in science and medicine in an analysis of Medicare's social, demographic, institutional, political, and policy contexts. This book illustrates how policies translate to everyday lives. It offers a vision of what healthy aging could be and delineates what is needed to realize this vision.

Product details

• Authors: Christine Cassel, Christine K. Cassel
• Publisher: University Of California Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 29.03.2007
• EAN: 9780520251564
• ISBN: 978-0-520-25156-4
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 146 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public; California/Milbank Books on He; California/Milbank Books on Health and the Public
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system; Medicine: general issues, MEDICAL / Health Policy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gerontology, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, Age groups: the elderly, Health systems and services, Medicolegal issues