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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... United States can be explained largely in terms of health behaviors that relate to them. Consider the 10 leading causes of death, as of 2003, as characterized by diagnosed disease or condition: diseases of the heart, malignant neoplasms ...
... United States, there is no one central “trunk” of the “tree” mentioned earlier, but multiple ones. For the United States, think of a banyan tree, not an oak. For example, there is no national Ministry of Health or its equivalent playing ...
... United States, as in most industrialized countries, there are five major types of health services program sectors: the principal governmental health authorities, other agencies of government with health care functions, the private ...
... United States has been collectivized, as in the various public and private health insurance programs and managed care, the direct provision of health services to patients has remained substantially in the markets created by individual ...
... United States, both secondary and tertiary health services are highly developed. That development has not always occurred either in response to a well-documented need or in a planned way so as to make for the most efficient use 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 |