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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Chapter 4 Chapter 5 Primary and Ambulatory Care Primary Care Introduction Functions Brief Historical Background Primary Care Workforce Primary Care and the Health Care Delivery System Ambulatory Care Definitions Utilization Hospital ...
Chapter 5 covers governmental roles and functions. Financing is reviewed in chapter 6, and in chapter 7 the principles and practices of quality assurance are presented. Chapter 8 is devoted xiv Preface.
They enable the system's components to interact and function to produce health services for the people. ... health services sectors: the principal governmental health authorities, other agencies of government with health care functions, ...
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.
... a variety of ways—for example, by ownership, size, function, and average length of patient stay. There are three principal types of ownership: government (federal, state, and local); private, not-for-profit (also called voluntary); ...
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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 |