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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... million of us don't have health insurance , health care costs too much for what we do get , and quality and service are uneven . Don't blame Dr. Jonas or the Drs . Goldsteen for any of this . They have been voices in the wilderness ...
... million people worked in the health care system (NCHS, 2005, Table 104). As of 2001, the largest groups were nurses, physicians, pharma- cists, dentists, and physical therapists (NCHS, 2005, Table 108). The physicians, of whom there ...
... million (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005, Table 2). Many characteristics of the U.S. population differentiate us from other industrialized countries with more homogenous populations, and these characteristics in turn contribute to shaping our ...
... million people, about 9.9% of all persons employed in the United States, were working in the health care industry (National Center for Health Statistics [NCHS], 2005, Table 104). More than 41% of them worked in hospitals, 13% in nursing ...
... million visits were made to physician offices in the United States, an overall rate of 315.9 visits per 100 persons. Overall, 58.9% were to physicians in the specialties of general and family medicine, in- ternal medicine, pediatrics ...
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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 |