An Introduction to the US Health Care SystemSpringer Publishing Company, 25/05/2007 - 328 من الصفحات Completely expanded and updated to account for the latest changes in the U.S. health care system, this best-selling text remains the most concise and balanced introduction to the domestic health care system. Like its predecessors, it provides an accessible overview of the basic components of the system: healthcare personnel, hospitals and other institutions, the federal government, financing and payment mechanisms, and managed care. Finally, it provides an insightful look at the prospects for health care reform. Steven Jonas, a revered expert in public health, has enlisted his colleagues, Drs. Raymond and Karen Goldsteen, to add their expertise in public health and health policy and management to this outstanding volume. All students of health care administration and policy, as well as practicing healthcare professionals who simply want a relatively brief overview of the system, will find it useful. |
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... benefit. Tertiary prevention focuses on the optimum treatment of clinically apparent, clearly identified disease so as to reduce the incidence of later complications to the greatest possible degree. In cases where disease has been ...
... benefit of employment. For-Profit, or “Proprietary,” Health Service Enterprises. These enterprises are playing an increasingly significant role in the U.S. health care system. There are five subgroups of for-profit health services ...
... benefit, and related cost-utility analysis. At the macro level, efficiency analysis is based on comparisons of the performance of health care systems (Aday et al., 2004). On many studies of macro-efficiency, the U.S. health care system ...
... benefits; the provision of medical malpractice insurance by the employer; regular hours and regular night and weekend coverage schedules; avoiding the difficulties associated with entering into private practice in many desirable living ...
... benefit the war effort. The nursing reforms she introduced eventually reduced hospital mortality from 60% to about 1%. This did not prevent repeated attempts on the part of her male military and medical superiors to undermine the ...
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Chapter 3 Hospitals and Other Health Care Institutions | 63 |
Chapter 4 Primary and Ambulatory Care | 83 |
Chapter 5 Government and the Health Care System | 107 |
Chapter 6 Financing | 129 |
Chapter 7 Health Care System Performance | 167 |
Chapter 8 From Prepaid Group Medical Practice to Managed Care | 205 |
Chapter 9 Health Care Reform | 227 |
Epilogue | 263 |
List of Critical Reports on the US Health Care Delivery System 19272006 | 275 |
Sources of Data | 279 |
Glossary of Terms | 285 |
Index | 295 |