Ellen L Idler / Lowell S Levin
Librería Samer Atenea
Kálamo Books
Librería Perelló (Valencia)
Librería Elías (Asturias)
Librería Kolima (Madrid)
Librería Proteo (Málaga)
Health care policy traditionally views lay people as health care consumers. This groundbreaking book offers evidence of a new perspective: lay people are the primary providers of health care. The family, organized religion, voluntary associations, neighborhoods, and ethnic and racial groups act as a buffer between the individual and the large institutions of modern society. These small social groups or 'mediating structures' comprise the hidden non-professional health care system which is Cost Effective, Integral, and Enduring. 3