Policy Challenges In Modern Health Care

This book provides perspective on how the US health care system evolved, why it faces the challenges that it does, and why reform is so difficult to achieve. It tackles issues including tobacco, obesity, gun violence, insurance gaps, the rationing of services, the power of special interests, medical errors, and the nursing shortage.
Year of publication: 2005
Pagination: 292 pages, black & white illustrations
Format: Paperback
Editor: David Mechanic, Lynn B. Rogut, David C. Colby, J.R. Knickman