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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... federal monies or in times of declared national emergency must the states accept national direction. Similarly, below the level of state government, there are units of local government—counties, cities, and occasionally special health ...
... federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) and in certain states designated state agencies, is often weak. Private Professional Practice The U.S. health care system traditionally has been dominated by private medical ...
... federal legislation was enacted back in the 1960s to replace the state mental hospital system, has never been developed. Nevertheless, as also noted, the state mental hospital system was sharply and steadily contracted over the last 18 ...
... federal, state, and local governments from time to time have imposed health care system regulation in an attempt both to correct existing deficiencies, inefficiencies, and inequities and to prevent the development of new problems in the ...
... federal government service, most of them in the armed forces or units of what was formerly the U.S. Public Health Service. More than 80% of the federal physicians worked in patient care services. These percentages have varied marginally ...
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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 |