Payer, Provider, Consumer: Industry Confronts Health Care Costs Industry Confornts Health Care Costs
With this first monograph, Springer-Verlag launches an unusual publishing venture. The purpose of the Springer Series on Industry and Health Care is to explore in depth the current and potential future role of industry both management and labor in all private sector enterprises-as a financer of hea...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY
Springer New York
1977, 1977
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 1977 |
| Series: | Springer Series on Industry and Health Care
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| Collection: | Springer Book Archives -2004 - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Introduction: Industry Confronts Health Care Costs
- 2. Industry as Payer: Employee Health Benefits
- Assuming a Broader Role
- An Expanding Benefit Package
- Some Causes and Effects of Rising Costs
- Approaches to Cost Containment
- 3. Industry as Provider: Health Programs Sponsored by Employers or Unions
- Early History
- Occupational Medicine Takes Shape
- The Occupational Safety and Health Act
- Industrial Medical Programs
- Creating Alternative Delivery Systems—A Role for Industry
- 4. Industry as Consumer: Health Planning and Consumer Health Information
- Community Health Planning
- Industry Involvement in Health Planning
- Individual Decisions about Health and Health Care
- 5. Summing Up
- 6. Issues for the Future
- Appendix: Conference Participants Quoted
- Notes
- Annotated Bibliography