Generalist Medicine and the U.S. Health System

ISBN: 9780787972455

出版社: John Wiley & Sons Inc

出版年: 2004-4

页数: 704

定价: 506.00元

装帧: Pap

内容简介

This comprehensive resource illuminates the past, present, and future of generalist medicine. Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy contains new contributions from preeminent authorities and a selection of groundbreaking articles and reports from the past forty years. Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy covers a broad range of topics that * Examines the current challenges of primary care and generalist medicine * Offers a chronological history of the growth of generalist medicine since the 1950s * Reviews the models of care on which generalist medicine is based * Analyzes the growth of three disciplines general internists, family physicians, and pediatricians * Looks at the supply and distribution of generalist physicians * Discusses the education and training of generalist physicians * Reports on the cost and quality of the care provided by generalist versus specialists