Managing Care: A Shared Responsibility

2006. Auflage 2005
ISBN: 978-1-4020-4184-6
Verlag: Springer

Buch, Englisch, 218 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 245 mm, Gewicht: 1160 g

Reihe: Issues in Business Ethics

This book traces the growth of managed care as a mechanism for curbing excessive growth in health costs, and the controversies that have risen around for-profit health care. Also examined are decentralization in US health care, and the absence of comprehensive health care planning, access rules, and minimum health care benefit standards. Finally, the author proposes a framework for improving access to quality, affordable health care in a competitive market environment.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Verheijde, Joseph L

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Betriebswirtschaft: Theorie & Allgemeines
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Betriebswirtschaft Management Unternehmensführung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Angewandte Ethik & Soziale Verantwortung Medizinische Ethik
• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Part 1. Health Care Costs and Scarcity. Introduction.- Development of Managed Care.- Rationing: A Dilemma for Ethicists.- Responsibility.- Part 2. The Concept of Managed Care and its Practical Implications.- Introduction.- Quality of Care in Managed Care.- History of Managed Care.- Where Does Managed Care Find its Market.- Definition of Managed Care.- Managed Care as Unknown Territory.- Methodological Concerns Regarding Data Collection.- Population-Based Distribution and Individual Autonomy.- Balancing Responsibilities.- Changes in Managed Care.- Part 3. Ideology: The Silent Partner.- Introduction.- The Concept of Ideology.- Ideology In Medicine.- The Context of Scarcity and its Ideological Impact on Health Care.- Conclusion.- Part 4. Concept of Genuine Responsibility.- Introduction.- Changing the Focus In Health Care Distribution.- The Notion of Responsibility.- Justice And Health Care.- Key Presumptions.- Part 5: Revising The Template For Modeling Health Care.- Introduction.- Necessity For Change.- Defining Health And Health Care.- The Main Parties Involved.- Part 6: Theoretical Reflections.- Introduction.- Managed Care.- The Problem: Who Is Responsible For What?- Justice As Appropriation.- A Template For Responsible Healthcare Distribution.- Part 7: Implementation In U.S. Health Care System: Challenges And Opportunities.- Introduction.- Changing The Views on Business And Profits.- Individual Entitlement And Social Justice.- The Role of Government.- Health Care Planning.- Health Care Budgeting.- Special Interest Groups And Policy Making.- The Minimum Health Care Benefit Package.- The Contribution of Evidence Based Medicine.- Bibliography.- Index.