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| author | Steve Brozak |
| title | A Review and Analysis of the Fall and Hopeful Rise of American Healthcare |
| abstract |
In spite of universal agreement that the American healthcare system has fallen into a broken series of disparate models that can't continue, there is little agreement in
what can be done to fix them. This dissertation through a collective analysis attempts to undercut many standard beliefs about the relevance of science and medicine to
major corporate decisions in the pharmaceutical and healthcare sector, detailing some of the effects of random serendipity on medical discoveries, and the growing and
worrisome impact of direct influence from the financial sector on improvements in healthcare and treatments. It seeks to dispel and correct misconceptions regarding
actual medical and organizational practices and offers as a potential solution to the chaos in decision-making along with the continuing cost increases. The advocacy is
for the adoption of some of the large-scale innovative programs implemented by the Veterans Health Administration (VHA ) that have shown success varying from cost
containment, scientific innovation and quantifiable accomplishments in the treatment of both acute and chronic diseases.
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| school | The Caspersen School of Graduate Studies, Drew University |
| degree | D.M.H. (2016) |
| advisor | Philip Scibilia
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| committee | Richard Marfuggi
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| full text | SBrozak.pdf |
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