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Healthcare systems & reform / the editors of Salem Press.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Editors of Salem Press, author.
Series:
Sociology reference guide.
Sociology Reference Guide
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medical care.
Health services administration.
Health care reform.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (v, 112 pages).
Edition:
Second edition.
Other Title:
Healthcare systems and reform
Place of Publication:
Ipswich, Massachusetts : Salem Press, [2017]
Summary:
This work is designed to provide a solid foundation for the research of various sociological topics. This volume offers an introductory overview of sociology as it applies to health and medicine across the world.
Contents:
Globalization & health care
Health & economic development
Health & medicine in modern society
The U.S. healthcare system
The U.S. health insurance system
Medicare & medicaid
Access to health care in the U.S.
Health & medicine : feminist perspectives
Health care by age, gender and class
Health care reform in the U.S.
The medical industrial complex
Social-conflict analysis of health & medicine
A structural-functional analysis of health & medicine
Symbolic interactionist analysis of health & medicine
Social epidemiology
Implications of genetic technology
The politics of health and health activism.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references.
Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 3, 2017).
ISBN:
9781429843096
1429843098
OCLC:
960977465

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