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1 online resource (viii, 243 pages) No single discipline can provide a full account of how and why health care is the way it is. This book provides you with a series of conceptual frameworks which help to unravel the apparent complexity that confronts the inexperienced observer. It demonstrates the need for contributions from medicine, sociology, economics, history and epidemiology. It also shows the necessity to consider health care at three key levels such as: individual patients and their experiences; health care organisations such as health centres and hospitals; and regional and national institutions such as governments and health insurance bodies. The book examines: inputs to health services; processes of care; outcomes; organization of services; and, improving the quality of health care Includes index section 1. Introduction -- section 2. Inputs to health care -- section 3. Processes of health care -- section 4. Outcome of health -- section 5. Organization of services -- section 6. Quality improvement Includes bibliographical references and index Print version record

Author

Black, Nick; Gruen, Reinhold

Publisher

McGraw-Hill Education

Published

2005

Language

EN

ISBN

9780335218387

Subjects

Medical, Health & Fitness, Social Science