This chapter identifies the number and location of health facilities and resources available to Alaska Natives and delineates the costs involved in delivering health care to them. The main parameters of sound health care are analyzed and the health care industry in Alaska is discussed together with the principal elements that bear on health care expenditures. Observations are made about the national health scene and about state health activities in general. Health care expenditures are scrutinized; e.g., payments for medical, dental, osteopathic, psychiatric, nursing, and other health care, for hospital, clinical, or other institutional facilities, for health education of the healthy and the sick, for special education of the handicapped, the maimed, or the chronically ill, for therapeutic measures, special devices, drugs and medicine, and for health treatment procedures. Indirect costs associated with reduced earning power are also examined. Values are assigned to all activities associated with the health care of Alaska Natives except those related to their social, interpersonal, and personal problems. ...
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Alternate chapter title : Cost of Health Care in Alaska.