Synopses & Reviews
Includes bibliographical references (p. 298-299) and web site resources (p. 297-298).
Review
"Saving Lives & Saving Money provides both an astute diagnosis and a visionary prescription for transforming and creating a better system of health and healthcare for the 21st century....If you want to know what the future of healthcare can be, please read this book. Highly recommended." Dean Ornish, M.D., author of Dr. Dean Ornish's Program for Reversing Heart Disease
Table of Contents
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: Why the Best of the Past Is Not Good Enough for the Future
- Chapter 2: Why Reforming Healthcare Is Doomed to Fail and Only a Process of Transforming Health and Healthcare Can Succeed
- Chapter 3: The Principles of a 21st Century System of Health and Healthcare
- Chapter 4: Health First, Healthcare Second
- Chapter 5: Personal Control of Healthcare Dollars
- Chapter 6: Medical Culture
- Chapter 7: Toward a 21st Century System of Healthcare
- Chapter 8: Diabetes As an Example of the Health First, Healthcare Second Model
- Chapter 9: For the Big Breakthroughs in Health: Invest in Science and Discovery
- Chapter 10: Active, Healthy Again: Living Healthier, Happier, and Longer
- Appendix A: Transforming Examples
- Appendix B: Biothreat: Transform or Risk Mass Deaths
- Appendix C: Web Site Reference