Systems of Health-Care Delivery: Sociological Issues Linked to Health Reform and Roles of Patients and Providers

Abstract

This chapter provides an introduction to Volume 29, Health-Care Delivery and Reform: Roles of Patients and Providers. This chapter discusses the topic of health-care systems and health-care reform from an American perspective and also focuses on the roles of patients and providers and how recent sociological literature examines some of these issues. It also serves as an introduction to the volume. It explains the organization of the volume and briefly comments on each of the chapters included in the volume.

Citation

Jacobs Kronenfeld, J. (2011), "Systems of Health-Care Delivery: Sociological Issues Linked to Health Reform and Roles of Patients and Providers", Jacobs Kronenfeld, J. (Ed.) Access to Care and Factors that Impact Access, Patients as Partners in Care and Changing Roles of Health Providers (Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 29), Emerald Group Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. 3-17. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0275-4959(2011)0000029003