Health Care Choices for Today's Consumer -  Families USA Foundation

Health Care Choices for Today's Consumer

Guide to Quality and Cost
Buch | Softcover
480 Seiten
1997 | Revised and expanded ed.
John Wiley & Sons Inc (Verlag)
978-0-471-17090-7 (ISBN)
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"Admirable... clearly written, well organized... easy and helpful. " --Washington Post "This is the surefire guide to making critical decisions about your family's health. " --Dr.J.
"Admirable ...clearly written, well organized ...easy and helpful." --Washington Post "This is the surefire guide to making critical decisions about your family's health." --Dr. J. Larry Brown, Professor of Nutrition and Health Policy School of Nutrition, Tufts University "The array of choices and decisions facing consumers in health care today is incredibly complicated. Families USA has taken on the challenge of making this complex world accessible to the most important person in the process: the consumer. They've succeeded brilliantly!" --Dick Davidson, President, American Hospital Association. Now completely revised and expanded, this indispensable reference provides in-depth, up-to-the-minute coverage of major health care issues to help you make crucial choices for you and your family.
Packed with vital facts and figures, illuminating advice, and invaluable tips, Health Care Choices for Today's Consumer includes: New chapters on men's health as well as prescription and over-the-counter drugs The latest on health care finance, managed care, alternative medicine, and wellness programs Updated financial, legal, and insurance information Important details on such topics as consumer rights, primary care, mental health, medications, hospitals, and physicians.

FAMILIES USA FOUNDATION (Washington, D.C.) is a national nonprofit organization dedicated to ensuring that consumers are given a voice in shaping the U.S. health care system. It has 135,000 members. MARC S. MILLER, Ph.D., is the Director of Families USA's Health Care Choices project.

Partial table of contents: GETTING STARTED. Healthy Living (R. Convissor & A. Chang). Consumer Rights (G. Annas) THE HEART OF THE MATTER. Health Insurance: Managing Managed Care (N. Turnbull). Primary Care (H. Tolpin). Medications (J. Graedon & T. Graedon). FOCUSING ON YOU. Parents as Health Care Consumers (N. Wells). Men as Health Care Consumers (J. Kellogg). Elders as Health Care Consumers (L. Glasse & M. Schechter). THE COMPLETE PACKAGE. Physician Specialists (J. Mendelson). Long Term Care (P. Denker). Caring for Your Teeth (R. Krughoff). Buying Eyeglasses and Contact Lenses (R. Krughoff). Alternative Health Care (N. Carballeira). FOR EVERYONE'S HEALTH. Helping Yourself: A Guide to Self-Help Groups, Going Online, and General Resources for Health Care Consumers (M. Grover). Appendices. Glossary. Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 4.8.1997
Zusatzinfo illustrations
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 190 x 236 mm
Gewicht 822 g
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Gesundheit / Leben / Psychologie
Medizin / Pharmazie Gesundheitswesen
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 0-471-17090-9 / 0471170909
ISBN-13 978-0-471-17090-7 / 9780471170907
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