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Understanding Health Services
Author(s): Nick Black (Author)
- Publisher: Open University Press
- Publication Date: 4 July 2005
- Language: English
- Print length: 256 pages
- ISBN-10: 0335218385
- ISBN-13: 9780335218387
Book Description
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 insurance bodies.
The book examines:
- Inputs to health services
- Processes of care
- Outcomes
- Organization of services
- Improving the quality of health care
Series Editors: Rosalind Plowman and Nicki Thorogood.
Editorial Reviews
About the Author
Senior Honorary Lecturer at the Department of Public Health and Policy of the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine
