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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... nursing homes (7%), dentists (5%), government public health services (3%), and government administration and net cost of private health insurance (7%) (U.S. Census Bureau, 2005, Table 120). Most health care personnel, for example, nurses ...
... Nurse Association. Voluntary health agencies have a wide variety of functions: to perform a service not rendered by ... Nurses Association (ANA), the American College of Preventive Medicine (ACPM), the American Public Health Association ...
... nursing homes for the aged and chronically ill, which have long been predominantly proprietary, with about 80% of ... nurse or perhaps only a medicine chest for self-use. Large plants or mines may maintain a staff of physicians and ...
... nurse practitioners and physician assistants also provide primary care (see chapter 3). Most of the major causes of acute and chronic morbidity (sickness) are treated in the primary care setting. As of 1996 (the most recent year for ...
... nurses for physicians in the provision of medical care. At the micro level, efficiency is assessed using: (1) production functions; and (2) cost-effectiveness, cost-benefit, and related cost-utility analysis. At the macro level ...
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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 |