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Beyond Obamacare : life, death, and social policy / James S. House.
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- Book
- Author/Creator:
- House, James S., 1944- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- United States.
- Health services accessibility--United States.
- Health services accessibility.
- Health Care Reform--economics.
- Health Services Accessibility--economics.
- Health Status Disparities.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Medical Subjects:
- Health Care Reform--economics.
- United States.
- Health Services Accessibility--economics.
- Health Status Disparities.
- Socioeconomic Factors.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Russell Sage Foundation, [2015]
- System Details:
- text file
- Summary:
- Health care spending in the United States today is approaching 20 percent of GBP, yet levels of U.S. population health have been declining for decades relative to other wealthy-and even some developing-nations. How is it possible that the United States, which spends more than any other nation on health care and insurance, now has a population markedly less healthy than those of many other nations? Sociologist and public health expert James S. House analyzes this paradoxical crisis, offering surprising new explanations for how and why the United States has fallen into this trap. In Beyond Obamacare, House shows that health care reforms, including the Affordable Care Act, cannot resolve this crisis because they do not focus on the underlying causes for the nation's poor health outcomes, which are largely social, economic, environmental, psychological, and behavioral. A provocative reconceptualization of health in America, Beyond Obamacare looks past partisan debates to show how cost-efficient and effective health policies begin with-more' comprehensive social policy reforms. Book jacket.
- Contents:
- Health, health care, and health policy in America : a contradiction, wrapped in a paradox, inside an enigma
- Health care reform : necessary but not nearly sufficient
- Health care/health : from biomedical to social determinants of health
- The life, death, and health of individuals and populations over time and social strata
- Racial/ethnic, gender, and age disparities in health; and their relation to socioeconomic position
- What a demand-side health policy might look like and do
- What and how socioeconomic policies determine health and health disparities
- The economic value and impact of a new demand-side health policy
- Understanding and resolving America's paradoxical crisis of health care and health.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 13, 2015).
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the John Lammey Stewart Memorial Library Fund.
- Other Format:
- Print version: House, James S., 1944- Beyond Obamacare
- ISBN:
- 9781610448499
- 1610448499
- Publisher Number:
- 99967464171
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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