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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... developed. However, U.S. government regulation is primarily a reactive, not a proactive, process. In the health care system it usually occurs, for example, after serious financial problems have developed or serious defects in quality ...
... developed as parallel systems as well as incorporated into the allopathic health care system. New financing and organizational models and, along with these, new paradigms of dominance and legitimacy are coming about. As a result, it is ...
... developed out of the nursing profession. Today, in countries less developed than the United States, work done in the United States by a laboratory technician, physical therapist, or dietitian is often done by a nurse (and at times even ...
... developed in the United States to facilitate the practice of the allopathic (MD) physician, whose early days in America are described in the foregoing passage. This section of the chapter describes physician training and practice today ...
... developed as the for-profit managed care industry has spread, is to act as the gatekeeper for the system, controlling the use of hospital and specialist care, at least as much for fiscal as for medical reasons. Following the first model ...
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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 |