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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... industrial workers, schoolchildren, and college and university students. Special programs can also be organized by type of illness. Mental illness is the most important health disorder for which special subsystems of health care are ...
... industry (National Center for Health Statistics [NCHS], 2005, Table 104). More than 41% of them worked in hospitals, 13% in nursing and personal care facilities, and more than 14% in physicians' offices. Since 1970, as the number of ...
... industrial settings, independently. Many of these “other health” occupations originally developed out of the nursing profession. Today, in countries less developed than the United States, work done in the United States by a laboratory ...
... industry, and the like. Among the several medical specialties, the largest numbers were found in internal medicine (about 96,000), general and family practice (about 72,000), pediatrics (more than 46,000), obstetrics and gynecology ...
... 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 seems to be leading physicians in the ...
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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 |