The Hidden Health Care System (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780975501832)

Health care policy traditionally views lay people as health care consumers. This groundbreaking book offers evidence of a new perspective: lay people are the primary providers of health care. The family, organized religion, voluntary associations, neighborhoods, and ethnic and racial groups act as a buffer between the individual and the large institutions of modern society. These small social groups or "mediating structures" comprise the hidden non-professional health care system which is Cost Effective, Integral, and Enduring.

Author: Lowell S. Levin, Ellen L. Idler
ISBN-10: 0975501836
ISBN-13: 9780975501832
Publisher: Golden Apple Publications
Language: English
Published: 05/14/2010
Pages: 296
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.92lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.62d