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The sociology of health and medicine : a critical introduction
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ISBN: 9780745634616 9780745634623 0745634613 0745634621 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cambridge, UK Polity

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The fully revised edition of this highly respected textbook addresses the most important theoretical and empirical debates in the sociology of health and medicine. Chapter by chapter the book examines important issues such as the complexities surrounding health and identity, health inequalities, and the organization and provision of health care. A particular strength of the book is its careful attention to theoretical developments in the field. The second edition has been rigorously updated to take account of recent theories and evidence in medical sociology. New to this edition are discussions of globalization, individualization, medicalization, new medical technologies and the sociology of the body. The new edition also looks in detail at recent social change and hotly debated explanations for the patterning of health by socioeconomic status, gender and ethnicity. In addition, it examines developments in contemporary health care, including the reconceptualization of patients as consumers. The result is a text that will be of interest to upper-level undergraduates and postgraduate students in sociology and social policy, as well as students of the allied health professionslooking for an in-depth and forward-thinking introduction to medical sociology. -- Provided by publisher.

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Sociology of health --- Sociology, Medical --- Delivery of Health Care --- Social medicine --- Medical care --- Médecine sociale --- Prestation de soins --- Great Britain --- United States --- Sociologie de la santé --- #SBIB:316.334.3M10 --- Social medicine. --- Health --- Medical care. --- Sociology, Medical. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- 316:61 --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Sociology of Medicine --- Medical Sociology --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Medical sociology --- Medicine --- Medicine, Social --- Public welfare --- Sociology --- Medical ethics --- Medical sociologists --- Medische sociologie: algemeen --- Social aspects. --- Medische sociologie --- Social aspects --- Great Britain. --- United States. --- Isle of Man --- United Kingdom --- United Kingdom. --- 316:61 Medische sociologie --- Médecine sociale --- Sociologie de la santé.


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Journal of Compassionate Health Care.
ISSN: 20532393 Year: 2014 Publisher: [London] : BioMed Central,

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Health Services Research --- Empathy --- Medical care --- Compassion --- Soins médicaux --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Periodicals --- Compassion. --- Medical care. --- Caring --- Action Research --- Health Services Evaluation --- Healthcare Research --- Research, Medical Care --- Health Care Research --- Medical Care Research --- Research, Health Services --- Evaluation, Health Services --- Evaluations, Health Services --- Health Services Evaluations --- Research, Action --- Research, Health Care --- Research, Healthcare --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Compassionate Health Care clinical --- Public health --- Emotions --- Empathy. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Health Services Research. --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Medicine - General --- Assistència sanitària. --- Compassió. --- Commiseració --- Emocions --- Altruïsme --- Bondat --- Caritat --- Empatia --- Simpatia (Sentiment) --- Assistència mèdica --- Assistència medicosocial --- Atenció mèdica --- Servei mèdic --- Tractament mèdic --- Salut pública --- Assistència ambulatòria --- Assistència psiquiàtrica --- Assistència hospitalària --- Atenció domiciliària --- Atenció primària --- Medicina personalitzada --- Serveis d'infermeria --- Serveis d'urgències mèdiques --- Serveis farmacèutics --- Assegurances de malaltia --- Assistència sanitària privada --- Serveis sanitaris


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JMIR human factors.
ISSN: 22929495 Year: 2014 Publisher: Toronto : JMIR Publications Inc.,

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Delivery of Health Care --- Medical care --- Environmental psychology --- Soins médicaux --- Psychologie de l'environnement --- Periodicals. --- Périodiques --- Environmental psychology. --- Medical care. --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Cognitive ergonomics --- Ecological psychology --- Ecopsychology --- Ecotherapy --- Environmental quality --- Environmental social sciences --- Human factors science --- Psychoeology --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Psychological aspects --- human factors --- psychology --- usability --- safety --- health care --- engineering --- Public health --- Psychology --- Psychotherapy --- Ecological Systems Theory --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Public Health - General --- Human medicine


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Journal of patient experience.
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ISSN: 23743735 23743743 Year: 2014 Publisher: Cleveland, OH : Thousand Oaks, CA : SBN Interacitve, Sage

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Patient Satisfaction --- Delivery of Health Care --- Patient satisfaction --- Medical care --- Patient Satisfaction. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- patient experience --- healthcare --- medical --- applications --- advances --- Medical care. --- Patient satisfaction. --- Health attitudes --- Medical personnel and patient --- Satisfaction --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Satisfaction, Patient --- Evaluation --- Medical Professional Practice --- Human medicine --- Satisfacció dels pacients. --- Pacients. --- Revistes electròniques. --- Revistes digitals --- Revistes en línia --- Revistes on line --- Revistes per Internet --- Publicacions electròniques --- Revistes --- Persones --- Relacions infermera-pacient --- Relacions metge-pacient --- Malalts --- Seguretat dels pacients --- Qualitat de vida dels pacients --- Satisfacció dels malalts --- Avaluació de l'assistència mèdica --- Satisfacció


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International journal of indigenous health.
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ISSN: 22919376 Year: 2014 Publisher: Victoria, British Columbia, Canada : Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Aboriginal Health Research Networks Secretariat, Waakebiness-Bryce Institute for Indigenous Health, Dalla Lana School of Public Health, University of Toronto

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Indians of North America --- Health Services, Indigenous --- Delivery of Health Care --- Inuits --- Health and hygiene --- Health and hygiene. --- Aleuts --- Eskimos --- Inupiats --- Kalaallits --- Aleut --- Eskimo --- Inuit --- Inupiat --- Kalaallit --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Indigenous Health Services --- Indigenous Services, Health --- Services, Indigenous Health --- Health Indigenous Service --- Health Indigenous Services --- Health Service, Indigenous --- Indigenous Health Service --- Indigenous Service, Health --- Service, Health Indigenous --- Service, Indigenous Health --- Services, Health Indigenous --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- First Nations (North America) --- Indians of the United States --- Indigenous peoples --- Native Americans --- North American Indians --- Culture --- Ethnology --- Alaska Natives --- Medicine, Traditional --- Health Services, Indigenous. --- Delivery of Health Care. --- Inuits. --- Public Health - General --- Alaskan Natives --- Medical care. --- Prestation de soins. --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Public health --- Inuk --- Inuit.


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Unmanageable Care
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ISBN: 0814764991 9780814764992 9780814770702 0814770703 9780814724910 0814724914 9780814770313 0814770312 Year: 2014 Publisher: New York NYU Press

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In Unmanageable Care, anthropologist Jessica M. Mulligan goes to work at anHMO and records what it’s really like to manage care. Set at a health insurancecompany dubbed Acme, this book chronicles how the privatization of the healthcare system in Puerto Rico transformed the experience of accessing andproviding care on the island. Through interviews and participant observation,the book explores the everyday contexts in which market reforms were enacted.It follows privatization into the compliance department of a managed careorganization, through the visits of federal auditors to a health plan, and intothe homes of health plan members who recount their experiences navigating thenew managed care system.Inthe 1990s and early 2000s, policymakers in Puerto Rico sold off most of theisland’s public health facilities and enrolled the poor, elderly and disabledinto for-profit managed care plans. These reforms were supposed to promoteefficiency, cost-effectiveness, and high quality care. Despite the optimisticpromises of market-based reforms, the system became more expensive, not moreefficient; patients rarely behaved as the expected health-maximizing informationprocessing consumers; and care became more chaotic and difficult to access.Citizens continued to look to the state to provide health services for thepoor, disabled, and elderly. This book argues that pro-market reforms failed todeliver on many of their promises.Thehealth care system in Puerto Rico was dramatically transformed, just notaccording to plan.

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Medical care --- Medical policy --- Health care reform --- Privatization --- Denationalization --- Privatisation --- Contracting out --- Corporatization --- Government ownership --- Health reform --- Health system reform --- Healthcare reform --- Medical care reform --- Reform of health care delivery --- Reform of medical care delivery --- Health insurance --- Health care policy --- Health policy --- Medicine and state --- Policy, Medical --- Public health --- Public health policy --- State and medicine --- Science and state --- Social policy --- Delivery of health care --- Delivery of medical care --- Health care --- Health care delivery --- Health services --- Healthcare --- Medical and health care industry --- Medical services --- Personal health services --- Government policy --- BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Insurance / Health. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General. --- SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. --- Delivery of Health Care --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Puerto Rico. --- E-books


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Geriatric medicine : an introduction
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ISBN: 0992518121 9780992518127 9780987290540 Year: 2014 Publisher: [Place of publication not identified] IP Communications

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Health Services --- Adult --- Medicine --- Health Occupations --- Age Groups --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care --- Persons --- Disciplines and Occupations --- Named Groups --- Geriatrics --- Health Services for the Aged --- Aged --- Elderly --- Longevity --- Health Services for Aged --- Health Services for the Elderly --- Health Services, Geriatric --- Geriatric Health Services --- Geriatric Health Service --- Health Service, Geriatric --- Service, Geriatric Health --- Services, Geriatric Health --- Frail Elderly --- Gerontology --- Person --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Healthcare Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Age Group --- Group, Age --- Groups, Age --- Health Professions --- Health Occupation --- Health Profession --- Profession, Health --- Professions, Health --- Occupations --- Medical Specialities --- Medical Specialties --- Medical Specialty --- Specialities, Medical --- Specialties, Medical --- Specialty, Medical --- Medical Speciality --- Speciality, Medical --- Health Workforce --- Adults --- Services, Health --- Health Service --- Health Services for the Aged. --- methods. --- physiology. --- psychology. --- Australia. --- Canton and Enderbury Islands --- Christmas Island --- Christmas Island (Australia)


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Health policy reform in China
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ISBN: 9814425893 9789814425896 9789814425889 9814425885 Year: 2014 Publisher: Hackensack, New Jersey

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Most of the existing literature on health system reform in China deals with only one part of the reform process (for example, financing reform in rural areas, or the new system of purchasing pharmaceuticals), or consists of empirical case studies from particular cities or regions. This book gives a broad overview of the process of health system reform in China. It draws extensively both on the Western literature in health economics and on the experience of health care reform in a number of other countries, including the US, UK, Holland, and Japan, and compares China''s approach to health care

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Health care reform --- Health reform --- Health system reform --- Healthcare reform --- Medical care reform --- Reform of health care delivery --- Reform of medical care delivery --- Medical policy --- Health insurance --- History. --- Health Care Reform --- Economics, Medical --- Delivery of Health Care --- S21/0500 --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Medical Economics --- Medicine --- methods --- China: Medicine, public health and food--Public health, hospitals, medical schools, etc --- economics --- China. --- Mainland China --- Inner Mongolia --- Manchuria --- People's Republic of China --- Sinkiang


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How deployments affect the capacity and utilization of army treatment facilities
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ISBN: 0833090054 9780833090058 9780833080455 0833080458 Year: 2014 Publisher: Santa Monica, CA : Rand Corporation ;

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Health facilities --- Families of military personnel --- Deployment (Strategy) --- Health Resources --- Health Care Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Health Care --- Delivery of Health Care --- Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Health Manpower --- Health Services --- Health Facilities --- Military & Naval Science --- Law, Politics & Government --- Military Administration --- Utilization --- Medical care --- Facilities, Health --- Facility, Health --- Health Facility --- Military families --- Health care facilities --- Health care institutions --- Health institutions --- Institutions, Health --- Medical care facilities --- Medical care institutions --- Medical facilities --- Services, Health --- Health Service --- Service, Health --- Health Workforce --- Manpower, Health --- Manpower, Health Occupations --- Health Occupations Manpower --- Workforce, Health --- Health --- Health Occupations --- Health Personnel --- Medicine --- Healthcare Quality, Access, and Evaluation --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Healthcare Facilities, Manpower, and Services --- Resources --- Health Resource --- Resource --- Resource, Health --- Resources, Health --- manpower --- supply & distribution --- Families --- Soldiers --- Public health --- Strategy --- Military Family. --- statistics & numerical data. --- United States. --- Families of Military Personnel --- Families of Veterans --- Military Families --- Families, Military --- Family, Military --- Veterans Families --- Veterans Family --- Military Health --- Veterans --- U.S. Army --- US Army


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Population health management in health care organizations
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ISBN: 1784411965 9781784411961 1784411973 1322294771 9781784411978 Year: 2014 Publisher: West Yorkshire, England : Emerald,

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The mission of healthcare organizations has undergone a remarkable transformation from curing disease to caring for the well-being of populations. While health care policy has explored this domain before, notably in Health Maintenance Organizations, the current efforts to create Patient-Centered Medical Homes (PCMHs) and Accountable Care Organizations (ACOs) represent a broader effort to move organizational responsibilities towards population health and care management. Volume 16 of AHCM presents papers that explore this topic across various levels of the healthcare system and employing multiple research designs including case studies, theoretical pieces, secondary data analyses, survey research and qualitative methodologies. Aspects of health care organization discussed in this volume include the PCMH, ACOs, integration with the public health and mental health systems, hospital-physician alignment, and resource planning. Population health management is presented as a factor driving these organizational changes and as a mechanism to facilitate this change.

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Health services administration --- Public health. --- Community health --- Health services --- Hygiene, Public --- Hygiene, Social --- Public health services --- Public hygiene --- Social hygiene --- Health --- Human services --- Biosecurity --- Health literacy --- Medicine, Preventive --- National health services --- Sanitation --- Public health administration --- Health facilities --- Health promotion --- Disease management --- Delivery of Health Care --- Health Services Administration --- Health Promotion --- Disease Management --- organization & administration --- methods --- E-books --- Disease Managements --- Management, Disease --- Managements, Disease --- Promotional Items --- Health Campaigns --- Promotion of Health --- Wellness Programs --- Campaign, Health --- Campaigns, Health --- Health Campaign --- Health Promotions --- Item, Promotional --- Items, Promotional --- Program, Wellness --- Programs, Wellness --- Promotion, Health --- Promotional Item --- Promotions, Health --- Wellness Program --- Health Education --- Preventive Health Services --- Preventive Medicine --- Administration, Health Services --- Health Services --- Community-Based Distribution --- Contraceptive Distribution --- Delivery of Healthcare --- Dental Care Delivery --- Distribution, Non-Clinical --- Distribution, Nonclinical --- Distributional Activities --- Healthcare --- Healthcare Delivery --- Healthcare Systems --- Non-Clinical Distribution --- Nonclinical Distribution --- Delivery of Dental Care --- Health Care --- Health Care Delivery --- Health Care Systems --- Activities, Distributional --- Activity, Distributional --- Care, Health --- Community Based Distribution --- Community-Based Distributions --- Contraceptive Distributions --- Deliveries, Healthcare --- Delivery, Dental Care --- Delivery, Health Care --- Delivery, Healthcare --- Distribution, Community-Based --- Distribution, Contraceptive --- Distribution, Non Clinical --- Distributional Activity --- Distributions, Community-Based --- Distributions, Contraceptive --- Distributions, Non-Clinical --- Distributions, Nonclinical --- Health Care System --- Healthcare Deliveries --- Healthcare System --- Non Clinical Distribution --- Non-Clinical Distributions --- Nonclinical Distributions --- System, Health Care --- System, Healthcare --- Systems, Health Care --- Systems, Healthcare --- Clinical medicine --- Medical care --- Decision making --- Cost control --- Medical --- Business & Economics --- Health systems & services. --- Medical administration & management. --- Managed care plans (Medical care) --- Health services accessibility. --- Health Care Delivery. --- Management. --- Management Science. --- Patients --- Care. --- Needs assessment. --- Access to health care --- Accessibility of health services --- Availability of health services --- Assessment of medical care needs --- Health care need --- Health care needs --- Health services needs --- Health planning --- Needs assessment --- Managed care programs (Medical care) --- Managed care systems (Medical care) --- Managed health care --- Plans, Managed care (Medical care) --- Programs, Managed care (Medical care) --- Systems, Managed care (Medical care) --- Health insurance --- Access

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