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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... primary prevention, once again that group of interventions that focus on stopping disease, illness, and injury before they start. And as Evans and Stoddart (1994) argue, other than for immunization, the major focus of the health care ...
... primary function of the biomedical research and medical technology systems is to continue this expansion of knowledge. Health sciences knowledge and technology are put to use by the large number of people who work in the health care ...
... primary, secondary, or tertiary. Primary Care In functional terms, primary care is the care that most people need most of the time for most of their health and illness concerns, for patients who are not in institutional beds. Primary ...
... primary, secondary, and tertiary care for certain population subgroups that are defined by age, gender, or occupation, as well as the management of certain specific health disorders in the population as a whole. In the United States ...
... primary contractor with patients for the provision of medical care, they took away from the physicians an increasing amount of the decision-making authority over how health care system resources are used and spent. This led to a degree ...
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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 |