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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... published more than 135 papers in scientific journals, as well as numerous articles in the popular literature. He is and has been a regular columnist for a number of scientific and lay publications in the health and health-related ...
... published by Springer Publishing in 1990 and 1995, respectively. That text is used with the permission of the ... published in 1999 and 2002, respectively. The eighth edition, coedited by Dr. Kovner and Dr. James Knickman, was published ...
... published a great deal on policy. Thus, this book has a political and philosophical point of view. Although it always attempts to be objective, it is not neutral. Its primary social value is that the principal purpose of the U.S. health ...
... published their first article on the hospitalist concept, based on a literature review of studies of the new model, Wachter and Goldman concluded (2002, p. 487): Empirical research supports the premise that hospitalists improve ...
... published in 1959 (Fordham, 1980). Given our national aversion to health services planning, it is unlikely that one will be implemented in the foreseeable future. Despite what has just been said about the total absence of organized ...
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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 |