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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... professionally active physicians who were not engaged in patient care worked in medical teaching, administration, research, state and local health services, the pharmaceutical industry, and the like. Among the several medical ...
... professional life with a large debt accumulated during their medical training; and finally, avoiding the tribulations of office practice dealing with managed care company scrutiny. (See chapter 8.) Indeed, the era of managed care has ...
... professional standards to do everything that might be beneficial for each 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 ...
... professional who can (1) see the patient as a whole person, (2) put together into one clinical picture observations derived from a variety of patient complaints arising from different organ systems, (3) guide the patient through an ...
... professionals could do just as well are established; and some arrangements for rationalizing the geographic distribution of physicians are made (see Mullan, 2002). But that would require a national physician supply and distribution ...
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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 |