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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... patient care services. These percentages have varied marginally since 1975. In 2002, about 660,000 (approximately 94%) of all nonfederal physicians worked in patient care. Of those, about 78% were in office-based practice, about 14 ...
... patients (although almost never in writing) to provide a set of services (usually not spelled out in any detail). In ... patient, such as a health insurance company or the Medicare program). This arrangement is appropriately enough ...
... patient. (p. 584) Patterns of Practice An important feature of medical practice organization in the United States is that most physicians see patients both on an ambulatory basis in their own offices and as hospital inpatients. (A small ...
... patient medicine—who will be responsible for managing the care of hospitalized patients in the same way that primary care physicians are responsible for managing the care of outpatients. Their prediction seems to becoming a reality ...
... patients. The high degree of knowledge and skill that specialists possess is beneficial to the patient who has a problem in that particular area of specialization. But it also has its disadvantages. Specialists tend to focus on their ...
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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 |