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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In our era, both the scientific knowledge base and our understanding of the best means for applying it to health maintenance and disease treatment are expanding at an ever-increasing rate through evidence-based medical research.
Under managed care, an increasing number of the latter group of health care professionals is receiving at least a portion of their incomes under a “capitation” payment system (see chapter 6). In the past, U.S. health care facilities for ...
The current increase in the incidence of tuberculosis related to acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS), although a serious problem, is not of a magnitude that will lead to the reestablishment of anything like the old TB sanitarium ...
Physicians will need to spend more time providing services for the elderly, increasing from 32% of patient care hours in 2000 to 39% in 2020 (Bureau of Health Professions, 2003). Health care expenditures are also expected to increase ...
serious problems, many of which are long-standing, but some of which, especially the increasing dominance of for-profit activities, are of recent origin—in particular, as Schiff and Young (2001, p. 401) put it, “the [modern] ...
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Chapter 2 Health Care Workforce | 31 |
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 |