Power and Illness: The Failure and Future of American Health Policy Pdf

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Release: 1995-02-09
Publisher: University of California Press
Binding: Paperback
ISBN/ASIN: 0520201515
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness--even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this has been so and offers a forceful argument for fundamental change in national health care priorities.
Fox discusses how ideas about illness and health care, as well as the power of special interest groups, have shaped the ways in which Americans have treated illness. Those who make health policy decisions have increased support for hospitals, physicians, and medical research, believing that people then would become healthier. This position, implemented at considerable cost, has not adequately taken into account the growing burden of chronic disabling illness. While decision makers may have defined chronic disease as a high priority in research, they have not given it such a priority in th Download Power and Illness for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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