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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... organized by type of illness. Mental illness is the most important health disorder for which special subsystems of health care are organized in the United States. Historically, hospitalization for mental illness took place primarily in ...
... organization (MCO), usually for-profit (Dudley & Luft, 2001; Fubini, 1996; Smits, 2002), contracts with patients, either directly or through their employers, to provide medical care. In the United States there is a clear distinction ...
... organizations face different types of administrative problems. For example, consider an administrative/management problem ... organization of the first governmental office of public health. Even though virtually all health care entities ...
... organizations that have been in the forefront of this movement to improve the quality of health care. In addition, we will briefly discuss the population health orientation and its indicators of health care quality. A health care system ...
... organizational models and, along with these, new paradigms of dominance and legitimacy are coming about. As a result, it is not clear what the U.S. health care system will look like even 10 years from now. Some of the major changes ...
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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 |