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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... Americans including African Americans, Hispanic/Latinos, Native Americans, and Pacific Islanders generally have poorer health outcomes than do whites. The preventable and treatable conditions for which disparities have been shown ...
... American Hospital Association, 2001, p. A3). The American Hospital Association defines the community hospital as a nonfederal, short-term general or other special hospital. This is the predominant type of hospital in the United States ...
... American Heart Association, the Red Cross, and the Visiting Nurse Association. Voluntary health agencies have a wide ... American Medical Association (AMA), the American Nurses Association (ANA), the American College of Preventive ...
... American people are significantly uneven (Institute of Medicine, 2002; Wennberg et al., 1996, 1999). For many persons who live in the right geographic location, have the right health care cost coverage package, and have a disease or ...
... American medicine has chosen to focus, American medicine is, as it is said, “the best in the world.” But for the person who lives in the wrong place (Wennberg et al., 1996, 1999), has no health care cost coverage (Schroeder, 2001), is ...
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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 |