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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... the need for health care may be seen as a failure to prevent the determinants of health from adversely affecting the individual patient. Health care can be categorized in terms of its relationship to prevention— primary, secondary, ...
Its role and function focus significantly on producing outcomes, such as power and profits for providers and payers, in addition to the provision of patient and community health services. Care is provided, and it is paid for.
Health Care Facilities Of the institutions housing and caring for patients in bed (inpatients), acute care hospitals are the most ... a variety of ways—for example, by ownership, size, function, and average length of patient stay.
Government expenditures are for both services that it operates directly and services patients receive from independent providers. In this case, government is a “third-party payer” (counting the patient as the first party and the ...
As previously noted, under managed care, the service contract is between the managed care company and the patient (most often through the patient's employer), not between the physician and the patient. The physician also contracts with ...
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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 |