Changing the U. S. Health Care System : Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management
ISBN: 9780787985240 | 0787985244
Edition: 3rdFormat: Hardcover
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date: 2/2/2007
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The third edition of Changing the U.S. Health Care System is a thoroughly revised and updated compendium of the most current thought on three key components of health care policy-improving access, ensuring quality, and controlling costs. Written by a panel of health care policy experts, this third edition highlights the most recent research relevant to health policy and management issues. New chapters address topics such as the disparities in health and in health care, information systems, and performance in the area of nursing. Revisions to ch... MORE
| Figures and Tables | |
| Foreword | |
| The Editors | |
| The Authors | |
| Introduction and Overview | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Access to Health Care | |
| Improving Access to Care in America: Individual and Contextual Indicators | |
| Ethnic Disparities in Health Status | |
| Disparities in Health Care | |
| Public Policies to Ext... MORE | |
| Costs of Health Care | |
| Measuring Health Care Costs and Trends | |
| Containing Health Care Costs | |
| Controlling Pharmaceutical Prices and Expenditures | |
| Quality of Health Care | |
| Measuring Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life | |
| Evaluating the Quality of Care | |
| Public Release of Information on Quality | |
| Health Care Information Systems | |
| Performance Measurement of Nursing Care | |
| Special Populations | |
| Long-Term Care and the Elderly Population | |
| AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for Health Services and Public Health | |
| Health Reform for Children and Families | |
| Mental Health Services and Policy Issues | |
| Women's Health: Key Issues in Access to Health Insurance Coverage and to Services Among Nonelderly Women | |
| Homeless Persons | |
| Directions for Change | |
| Managed Care and the Growth of Competition | |
| Medicare Reform | |
| Public Health and Personal Health Services | |
| The Continuing Issue of Medical Malpractice Liability | |
| Ethical Issues in Public Health and Health Services | |
| Index | |
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Ronald M. Andersen is the Wasserman Professor Emeritus in the University of California, Los Angeles, department of Health Services and Sociology. Previously he was professor at the University of Chicago and director of Center for Health Administration Studies.
Thomas H. Rice is vice chancellor for academic personnel at the University of California, Los Angeles and professor of health services, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health.
Gerald F. Kominski is professor in the Department of Health Services, associate dean for academic programs, and associate director of the Center for Health Policy Research at the University of California, Los Angeles School of Public Health.
