Health Policy and the Disadvantaged - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0822311429 ISBN 13 : 9780822311423

Editeur : Duke University Press, 1991

Synopsis

This important collection of essays, originating in a 1989 conference on the disadvantaged in American health care, provides incisive commentary on U.S. health care policy and politics. Examining public responses to health crises and analyzing the political logic of the American community, this volume charts the immobility of U.S. health policy in recent years and points to its disastrous consequences for the 1990s.
Focusing on the particular needs of disadvantaged groups--the elderly, children, people with AIDS, the mentally ill, the chemically dependent, the homeless, the hungry, the medically uninsured--these essays develop strong policy statements. The authors describe the growth in U.S. health care programs, from Kerr-Mills to Medicare, Medicaid, and subsequent revisions, and stress the serious omissions resulting from incremental policy expansion, both in identifying disadvantaged groups and in implementing programs. They report the weakness of the U.S. health care system compared to systems of other technologically developed countries.

Contributors. Deborah A. Stone and Theodore R. Marmor, Judith Feder, Alice Sardell, Bruce C. Vladeck, Michael Lipsky and Marc A. Thibodeau, Daniel M. Fox, William E. McAuliffe, M. Gregg Bloche and Francine Cournos, Lawrence D. Brown, James A. Morrone

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Duke University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0822311429
• ISBN 13: 9780822311423
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 222
• Éditeur: Brown Lawrence D.
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