Description
Market-Based Health Care will define for students the challenges, arguments and politics behind the concept of consumer driven health care including what it would look like if the business sector would do a better job of organizing our health care arrangements and remove any governmental components built into the system. As a sociologist interested in health care, Budrys focuses on the impact our health care arrangements have on not just an economic level but how they affect people as well. This is an overwhelmingly complex topic and debate and one that is discussed widely in the classroom. This will be the first text to clearly present the market-based health care model and how doctors, medical insurance and "big pharma" play a role in its development.
About the Author
Grace Budrys is professor emerita at DePaul University. She consults closely with government and non-profit health care related organizations on the topic of market based health care. She is still active in academic research and is considered one of the fields leading medical sociologists. She chaired the committee that created the Master of Public Health program and served as director for the Public Services Master Program, and was a professor in the Department of Sociology. Her books include Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health or Illness and How Nonprofits Work: Case Studies in Nonprofit Organizations.
Reviews
Market-Based Health Care engages the critical question of the role of private markets in health care from positive and normative perspectives and offers substantial engagement with important issues of fairness, choice, and universal access. The combination of health institutions, economic theory, and real-world critiques of economic theory is a useful and clear way to approach this important topic. -- Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Book Information
ISBN 9781538128367
Author Grace Budrys
Format Paperback
Page Count 254
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 372g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 18mm
About the Author
Grace Budrys is professor emerita at DePaul University. She consults closely with government and non-profit health care related organizations on the topic of market based health care. She is still active in academic research and is considered one of the fields leading medical sociologists. She chaired the committee that created the Master of Public Health program and served as director for the Public Services Master Program, and was a professor in the Department of Sociology. Her books include Unequal Health: How Inequality Contributes to Health or Illness and How Nonprofits Work: Case Studies in Nonprofit Organizations.
Reviews
Market-Based Health Care engages the critical question of the role of private markets in health care from positive and normative perspectives and offers substantial engagement with important issues of fairness, choice, and universal access. The combination of health institutions, economic theory, and real-world critiques of economic theory is a useful and clear way to approach this important topic. -- Michael Ash, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
Book Information
ISBN 9781538128367
Author Grace Budrys
Format Paperback
Page Count 254
Imprint Rowman & Littlefield
Publisher Rowman & Littlefield
Weight(grams) 372g
Dimensions(mm) 230mm * 154mm * 18mm
