An Introduction to the US Health Care System

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Springer 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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... define these terms as follows: “Primary prevention is concerned with eliminating risk factors for a disease. Secondary prevention focuses on early detection and treatment of disease (subclinical and clinical). Tertiary prevention ...
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... defined set of “diseases”: unhealthy behaviors. The boundary becomes blurred between, e.g., heart disease as manifest in symptoms, or in elevated serum cholesterol measurements, or in excessive consumption of fats. All are “diseases ...
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... 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. (The topic of hospitals is covered in detail in chapter 3.) Nursing homes and ...
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... defined in the first sentence of this footnote, even though it is at variance with the true meaning of insurance we will use it in a similar way. 2 A personal health service is one given directly to 12 An Introduction to the U.S. Health ...
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... define) includes services that are available in both community hospitals and physicians' offices. Ideally, they are arranged through referral or consultation after a preliminary evaluation by a primary care practitioner. Secondary ...

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Chapter 1 Introduction
1
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
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Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, is Professor of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, and Professor, Graduate Program in Public Health, at Stony Brook University (NY).

Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, MA, is Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. He was founding director of the MPH Program and professor of Population Health in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota. He was also founding director of the Graduate Program in Public Health and professor of Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. Dr. Goldsteen has an extensive background in health care and was formerly a director of the health policy research centers at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, University of Oklahoma College of Public Health, and the West Virginia University School of Medicine. He is a coauthor of Introduction to Public Health, now in its second edition, and many peer-reviewed publications in health and health care.

Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH, is an Affiliated Public Health Faculty member in the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University. Prior to this, she was a research associate professor of Population Health in the MPH Program, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, at the University of North Dakota. She was also a research associate professor of Health Technology and Management in the Graduate Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University. She was awarded her MPH degree from Columbia University School of Public Health and her PhD in Community Health from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a Pew Health Policy Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Goldsteen is a coauthor of Introduction to Public Health, now in its second edition, and many peer-reviewed publications on health and health care.

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العنوانAn Introduction to the US Health Care System
المؤلفونSteven Jonas, MD, MPH, FACPM, Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH
الإصدار6
الناشرSpringer Publishing Company, 2007
رقم ISBN (الرقم الدولي المعياري للكتاب)0826103154, 9780826103154
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