Excessive Medical Spending [electronic resource] : Facing the Challenge.
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CRC Press,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
- Front Cover; Contents; Foreword; Author addresses; Introduction; 1. The cost of medical care: how much is too much?; 2. The nuts and bolts of medical research; 3. Conflict of interest: a major problem in medical research; 4. Drug regulation: two paradigms in conflict; 5. The marketing of drugs: how drug companies manipulate the prescribing habits of doctors; 6. Pricing pharmaceutical drugs in the USA; 7. Potential savings from therapeutic substitution of 10 of Canada's most dispensed prescription drugs; 8. Statins: is the net being thrown too wide?
- 9. Modern Western medicine: lots of bucks
- where's the bang?10. Genetics, genomic medicine, and achieving better population health: a flawed strategy?; 11. Issues in screening for cancer; 12. The Canadian National Breast Screening Study: science meets controversy; 13. Screening for breast cancer: benefits versus costs; 14. Screening for cervical cancer by Pap tests; 15. Paying for what works: the Reference Drug Program as a model for rational policy-making; 16. Disease prevention: the neglected alternative.
- 17. Promoting the health of the medical profession: environmentalism and commercialism in medical education18. A proposed new grand strategy: an integrated health system for the 21st century; Back Cover.