Customer Reviews

Introduction to Health Services

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This book is not very well suited to those who want an introduction to health policy and services. If you have some background in the field, it will probably be too basic to help you very much. I had no such background when I began using this book in a graduate course in health policy, and while most of the text is understandable, it is generally not very interesting and/or helpful. I suppose it's a good thing that the book and chapters are brief, however it leaves out a lot of details that I felt would be beneficial towards understanding a very complex system. When statistics are used to exemplify a point, they are generally pretty dated. Even if a new edition were available though, I'd read through a chapter or two in the library before investing in this book.

This book is adequate for the purpose it was written but my biggest criticism is the price which is it sold for. I feel that I have read many similar books with three or four times the content and is the price at which Intro to Health Services was sold.

Good book that gives you the basic and more information about Healthcare. Excellent starter book!!!!!!!!

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I placed my order on a Monday late evening, received my book within 3-4 business days of the same week.

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Very good book for beginners! Simple and clear! Though a bit expensive as for price.

Book was purchased for an online college course. So far of what I have read is very interesting about the development of health care in the U.S. and other countries.

Williams and Torrens have developed one of the best introductory texts on the US health system. The book has clear learning objectives, useful references, and helpful diagrams. The American health system is farily and accurately described, warts and all.

Using this text for a distance learning course. Seems to provide a good introduction to the subjects of Health Services. Written on a level I can understand, not being a medical person, but a hospital support person.

I am very upset. I ordered this item in August for a class I am going to be taking a few weeks later. When I ordered the book, it said it would be here by a certain date, so I ordered. When I got the confirmation, it said it wont be here for a whole month later. I am VERY upset, because I have assignments due, and no book to do them with.

If this book is only about the US health service, why doesn't the title say so? There are quite a few other countries out there in the world, and almost all of them have health services!