TY - BOOK ID - 77873820 TI - Understanding health services. AU - Black, Nick AU - Gruen, Reinhold PY - 2005 SN - 128095079X 9786610950799 0335224288 9780335224289 9781280950797 9780335218387 9780335224289 0335218385 PB - Maidenhead Open university press DB - UniCat KW - Health services administration. KW - Health administration KW - Health care administration KW - Health care management KW - Health sciences administration KW - Health services management KW - Medical care KW - Health planning KW - Public health administration KW - Administration KW - Management KW - #SBIB:316.334.3M50 KW - Organisatie van de gezondheidszorg: algemeen, beleid UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:77873820 AB - 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: individual patients and their experiences; health care organisations such as health centres and hospitals; and regional and national institutions such as governments and health ER -