Unhealthy State

Author: Wren, Maev-Ann

Publication Year: 2003

Contents

Preface
Introduction
Part one: Health in an unhealthy state
Part two: Evolution of an unhealthy state
2. Defeat of the early reformers
3. Consultants obstruct free hospital care
4. The unleashing of private medicine
5. The era of cuts
6. No beds no boom
7. The politics of blood
8. Ethics, ownership and the Catholic Church
Part three: A Failed system
9. Two-tier hospital care
10. The potent politics of hospital location
11. When the doctor costs too much
Part 4: Options for reform
12. Health spending and the black hole
13. Reform from quality
14. Private sector solutions
15. Changing the system
16. Lessons from abroad
Part 5: A healthier state
17. A healthier state
Appendix
Glossary
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Format	Print
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Publisher	New Island
Classification	community health care
ISBN	1902602889
Pages	445
Categories:	Books