Understanding Health ServicesNo single discipline can provide a full account of how and why health care is the way it is. This book provides you with a series of conceptual frameworks which help to unravel the apparent complexity that confronts the inexperienced observer. It demonstrates the need for contributions from medicine, sociology, economics, history and epidemiology. |
Contents
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Inputs to health care SECTION 2 | 33 |
Processes of health care SECTION 3 | 77 |
Outcome of health care SECTION 4 | 129 |
Organization of services SECTION 5 | 141 |
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