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| Foreword | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| A Primer on Theories of Social Justice and Defining the Problem of Health Care | |
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| Defining the Problem of Social Justice | |
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| Alternative Theories of Social Justice | |
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| Concluding Comments: Alternative Theoretical Perspectives on "the Right to Health Care" | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Historical Evolvement of the U.S. Health Care System | |
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| Historical Evolvement of the Basic Components of the Health Care System: Hospitals, Doctors, Nurses, and Health Insurance | |
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| The Historical Evolvement of the Federal Government in Health Care | |
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| Concluding Comments: Prospects for Achieving Health Care Reform | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Finance | |
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| Health Care Expenditures | |
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| An Overview of Health Care System Finance-Employment-Based Health Insurance | |
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| An Overview of Health Care System Finance-Public Financing of Health Care | |
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| Concluding Comments: The Large Presence of Public Dollars in the Financing of Health Care | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Services and Utilization | |
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| The Mixed Public/Private Structure of the U.S. Health Care System | |
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| The Resources of the U.S. System: Facilities, Technology, and Human Resources | |
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| The Health Care System Safety Net | |
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| Conducting Comments: The Paradoxical Underachievement of the U.S. Health Care System | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Long-Term Care of the Aged and Disabled | |
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| The Long-Term Care Services System | |
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| The Sustainability of Resources for Long-Term Care: Caregiving Labor and Public/Private Financing | |
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| Directions for Long-Term Financing Policy | |
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| Concluding Comments: A Social Justice Perspective on the Financing of Long-Term Care | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Disparities in Health and Health Care | |
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| Conceptualizing Disparities in Health and Health Care | |
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| Measuring Disparities in Health and Health Care | |
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| Social Characteristics Associated With Disparities in Health and Health Care | |
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| Disparities in Health and Burden of Disease: General Findings | |
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| Concluding Comments: The Deep Roots of Disparities in Health Care | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Social Epidemiology: Unraveling the Social Determinants of Disparities in Health | |
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| The Discipline of Social Epidemiology | |
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| The "Fundamental Social Causes" Hypothesis | |
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| Income Inequality as a Social Determinant of Health | |
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| Theoretical Debates Concerning Income Inequality Effects | |
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| Concluding Comments: Social Epidemiology as a Tool of Social Policy | |
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| Notes | |
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| Prospects for Just Health Care System Reform: A Political and Principled Analysis | |
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| The Social and Political Context of Health Care Reform | |
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| The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) | |
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| Conducting Comments: Toward a Progressive Vision of Universal Health Care | |
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| Notes | |
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| References | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Index | |