GurolUrganci, Ipek
Understanding Health Services
- ISBN 13:
- 9780335262144
- author:
- GurolUrganci, Ipek
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Open University Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2017
- Pages:
- 272
- Dimensions:
- 24.1 x 17.1 x 1.7 centimetres (0
- Genre:
- Medicine Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 10 working days
Description
Understanding Health Services provides an accessible overview of health services, drawing on medicine, sociology, economics, history and epidemiology. This book offers conceptual frameworks to clarify the complexity of healthcare, examining factors that influence health services and their delivery. The second edition has been updated to include recent developments and examples from low, middle and high income countries. It explores how medical knowledge, staff, patients and finance shape health services, as well as the roles played by users of these services. This book is an essential resource for students of public health and health policy, researchers, public health practitioners and policy makers.
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