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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... -use. Large plants or mines may maintain a staff of physicians and nurses who perform preplacement and periodic health examinations, treat any work-related illnesses, disabilities, or injuries, and may engage in work-site Introduction 15.
... staff and equipment “that transcend the capabilities of the average community hospital” (Rogatz, 1970, p. 47). Such. 2 A personal health service is one given directly to an individual—for example, treatment for an upper respiratory ...
... staff (residents in training), and almost 7% were fully qualified physicians working full time in hospitals (NCHS, 2005, Table 106). The slightly more than 41,000 nonfederal professionally active physicians who were not engaged in ...
... staff member. Since the mid-1990s, the era of “managed care,” this mode of physician organization has been changing (Bodenheimer, 1999; Dudley & Luft, 2001; Shortell, Waters, Clarke, & Budetti, 1998). Physician participation in managed ...
... staff has increased (Bureau of Health Professions, 2006). New Entrants and Choice of Medical Specialty Nearly 24,000 physicians complete their medical training through programs of graduate medical education (GME) each year (Bureau of ...
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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 |