Sick to death and not going to take it anymore!: reforming health care for the last years of life
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Main Author: Lynn, Joanne (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Berkeley, Calif. University of California Press ©2004
Series:California/Milbank books on health and the public 10
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references (pages 167-189) and index
Just the facts: serious chronic disease in the last phase of life -- Seeing the world differently: ideas to shape reform -- Good care for some people, sometimes -- Surveying the terrain: opportunities and challenges -- Good care for us all: building the care system to count on
Just a few generations ago, serious illness, like hazardous weather, arrived with little warning, and people either lived through it or died. In this important, convincing, and long-overdue call for health care reform, Joanne Lynn demonstrates that our current health system, like our concepts of health and disease, developed at a time when life was mostly short, serious illnesses and disabilities were common at every age, and dying was quick
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 205 pages)
ISBN:0520243005
0520931424
9780520243002
9780520931428

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