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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... practice. Among the other independent health professions are chiropractic, optometry, podiatry, psychotherapy, and, in some states, midwifery and physical therapy. For the most part, nurses work on the orders of physicians, although in ...
... practice of the allopathic (MD) physician, whose early days in America are described in the foregoing passage. This section of the chapter describes physician training and practice today. Licensure According to the Medical Practice Act ...
... practice, about 14% were house staff (residents in training), and almost 7% were fully qualified physicians working full time in hospitals (NCHS, 2005, Table 106). The slightly more than 41,000 nonfederal professionally active ...
... practice.” Traditionally, the private practitioner contracts directly with patients (although almost never in writing) to provide a set of services (usually not spelled out in any detail). In return, the practitioner is paid a fee by ...
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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 |