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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Its role and function focus significantly on producing outcomes, such as power and profits for providers and payers, in addition to the provision of patient and community health services. Care is provided, and it is paid for.
This may be changing with the development of “pay for performance,” in which reimbursement rates are based on outcomes achieved. If the Medicare program adopts this strategy for improving health care outcomes, there will be a ripple ...
Health care outcomes and their relationship to structure and process are of major importance in health care today (e.g., Institute of Medicine, 2001). In general terms, this kind of quality assessment is performed through the conduct of ...
... studies of macro-efficiency, the U.S. health care system is less efficient than those of other nations, spending more, providing fewer basic resources per capita, and having worse population health outcomes such as life expectancy.
Race, race-based discrimination, and health outcomes among African Americans. Annual Review of Psychology, 58, 201–225. McGinnis, J. M., & Foege, W. H. (1993). Actual causes of death in the United States. Journal of the American Medical ...
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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 |