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Healthcare systems & reform / the editors of Salem Press.
- 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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