Understanding Health Policy, Fifth Edition (LANGE Clinical Medicine)

by Thomas S. Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach, Keven Grumbach

Book Overview

This is the most clinically applicable textbook on the subject of healthcare. With a brand-new, two-color design that complements the already lucid writing style, this new edition of Understanding... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0071496068
• Release Date: August 2008
• Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.3" x 0.5" x 7.3"

Customer Reviews

Understanding Health Policy

This book is a great basic review of how health care is delivered. The format and information is most useful for people who are going into medicine. There isn't really anything about the politics behind health care policy; instead the book focuses on defining key terms and outlining the structure of relationships between payers, receivers, and providers. The book also covers the differences between different types of insurance policies, as well as different national health plans of countries with more socialized medicine.

This is a good book

We use this book in the Health Care Policy class for which I am a teaching assistant. It is a good, basic introduction to most of the important issues in health policy and the students give it high marks for clarity and comprehensiveness. It is easy to read and to understand.

Understanding Health Policy

This book is very well written. Though it crams a lot of information into a small number of pages, it is easy to understand. It is excellent at covering all angles of a topic.

Must Know Knowledge For MD's To Be

This book was a requirment for my medical school curriculum. Once I started reading this book, I couldn't put it down. I've never read any other books on health policy, so I don't have anything to compare it to, but I thought it was an excellent books. It is very well written, very easy to understand and extremely informative. I believe anyone interested in health care, medicine, etc. should obtain the knowledge in this book and what better source than "Understanding Health Policy".