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, the more limited view of health usually guides the provision of health services and efforts to improve health status. As Young (1998) writes: “Indeed, the WHO definition is 'honored in repetition, rarely in application ...
... practice that, certainly since the end of World War II, has produced, among other things, high incomes for many physicians. Although private medical practice is also common in most of the other industrialized countries, in the United ...
... practice did take place, as a significant portion of it moved to the managed care companies. (The health care workforce is covered in chapter 2, and managed care in chapter 8.) Health Care Facilities Of the institutions housing and ...
... Practice The U.S. health care system traditionally has been dominated by private medical and other health professional practice, as noted earlier. As of the early 2000s, though system trends have begun changing certain of these ...
... practice by psychiatrists, clinical psychologists, psychiatric social workers, and other psychotherapists. There are also several thousand public or voluntary mental health clinics serving primarily low-income patients. As noted, a ...
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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 |