Care for Major Health Problems and Population Health Concerns: Impacts on Patients, Providers and Policy

This volume contains papers dealing with macro—level system issues and micro—level issues involving provision of health care as related to major health problems or population health concerns. In the first chapter, the topic of population health is reviewed and examined, looking at relationships between social structure, including socioeconomic status, and health. A number of papers examine social, demographic and structural problems, and a wide variety of major health problems including chr...