During most of this century, American health policy has emphasized caring for acute conditions rather than preventing and managing chronic illness - even though chronic illness has caused most sickness and death since the 1920s. In this provocative and wide-ranging book, Daniel Fox explains why this[...]
Describes how politics, public finance and management, and advances in research methods made the convergence of science and governance possible. This book widens into a sweeping history of central issues in research on health services and health governance during the past century.[...]