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Understanding Health Services

Understanding Health Services

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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.

Product Details
Open University Press
46346
9780335218387
9780335218387

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Publication date
2005
Issue number
1
Cover
paperback
Pages count
256
Dimensions (mm)
67 x 95
Weight (g)
1

  • Overview of the book

    Section 1: Introduction
    A systems approach to health services
    Challenges facing health services
    Formal and lay care

    Section 2: Inputs to health care
    Diseases and medical knowledge
    Medical paradigms
    Staff: the challenge of professionalism
    Funding health care

    Section 3: Processes of health care
    The need and demand for health care
    The relationship between need and use
    Staff–patient interactions
    Public as consumers and policy makers

    Section 4: Outcome of health care
    Outcomes

    Section 5: Organization of services
    Analysing health systems
    Why are health systems the way they are?
    Low and middle income countries: from colonial inheritance toprimary care
    Low and middle income countries: from comprehensive primary careto global initiatives
    Health services in high income countries

    Section 6: Quality improvement
    De?ning good quality health services
    Performance assessment
    Improving quality of care

    Glossary
    Index

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