Changing Health Care Systems from Ethical, Economic, and Cross Cultural Perspectives

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Loewy, Erich H. (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Loewy, Roberta Springer (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2002.
• Θέματα: Medicine.; Management.; Ethics.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

This volume is the result of a conference sponsored by the Medical Alumni Association of the University of California, Davis and held in Sacramento, California, in January, 2000, The purpose of this conference was to examine the impact ofvarious health care structures on the ability of health care p...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• Health Care Systems and Ethics
• Facing Finitude in Health
• Health Care as a Right
• The Oregon Health Plan Ten Years Later
• A Mortgage on the House of God
• Values in Medicine
• Generational Conflicts and their Impact on Thinking about the Healthcare System
• The Uninsured and the Rationing of Health Care
• Application and Implications of Deontology, Utilitarianism, and Pragmatism for Medical Practice
• The Old Ethics and the New Economics of Health Care
• Playing the HMO Language Game
• Rationing Health Care in the United States and Canada
• Altering Capitation to Reduce the Incentive to Undertreat Patients Inappropriately
• Cross Cultural Issues in Medicine
• Competing Interests in Pediatric Managed Care Settings.