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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... role for the recipients of health care services: for example, the “sick role” as defined by Parsons (1951), which posits the rights and obligations of sick persons in Western societies. And the sum of all the institutions and processes ...
... roles; ability to deal with physical, biological, psychological and social stress; a feeling of wellbeing; and freedom from the risk of disease and untimely death. Both definitions exemplify the tendency over the second half of the 20th ...
... role of each differ among national systems. In the United States, as in most industrialized countries, there are five major types of health services sectors: the principal governmental health authorities, other agencies of government ...
... role in either the operation or the financing of health services. In the other industrialized countries, even if a ministry does not operate the health care system directly, at the least it creates and supervises the structure within ...
... role in determining the character of the health care system that goes well beyond the mere technical and scientific content of the educational programs. (Medical and nursing education are discussed briefly in chapter 2.) Health Care ...
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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 |