Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars Facing the Ever-Expanding Market for Medical Care /

• Main Author: Kaplan, Robert M. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2009.
• Subjects: Science (General).; Medicine.; Popular Science.; Popular Science in Medicine and Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.
• Online Access: https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-74045-4

Disease, Diagnoses, and Dollars Facing the Ever-Expanding Market for Medical Care Robert M. Kaplan, UCLA School of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA Close to 50 Million Uninsured, Steeply Rising Insurance Premiums, Employers Cutting Healthcare Benefits . . . Theres plenty wrong with this picture. In D...

Table of Contents:

• Chapter 1: Disease, Drugs and Money
• Chapter 2: The Disease-Reservoir Hypothesis
• Chapter 3: Mental Models of Health and Healthcare
• Chapter 4: What is Disease and When does it Begin?
• Chapter 5: Screening for Cancer
• Chapter 6: Deciding When Blood Pressure Is Too High
• Chapter 7: The Cholesterol Cutoff
• Chapter 8: Diabetes, Obesity, and the Metabolic Syndrome
• Chapter 9: Costs-Effectiveness and Opportunity Costs
• Chapter 10: Shared Medical Decision-Making
• Chapter 11: Putting the Pieces Together.