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This new edition of the AJN Award-winning textbook analyzes the most current health care reforms and their effect on our health system from a social justice perspective. It addresses the reforms of the landmark health care reform bill passed in March, 2010, and provides students of health care policy with a framework within which they can understand and evaluate our health system. The text provides a comprehensive description and analysis of the historical evolution and organization of our health care system that is framed by a forthright socia... MORE

Foreword	p. xi
Preface	p. xiii
Acknowledgments	p. xv
A Primer on Theories of Social Justice and Defining the Problem of Health Care	p. 1
Defining the Problem of Social Justice	p. 1
Alternative Theories of Social Justice	p. 2
Concluding Comments: Alternative Theoretical Perspectives on "the Right to Health Care"	p. 31
Notes	p. 41
Refe... MORErences	p. 45
Historical Evolvement of the U.S. Health Care System	p. 49
Historical Evolvement of the Basic Components of the Health Care System: Hospitals, Doctors, Nurses, and Health Insurance	p. 50
The Historical Evolvement of the Federal Government in Health Care	p. 64
Concluding Comments: Prospects for Achieving Health Care Reform	p. 100
Notes	p. 101
References	p. 105
The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Finance	p. 109
Health Care Expenditures	p. 110
An Overview of Health Care System Finance-Employment-Based Health Insurance	p. 118
An Overview of Health Care System Finance-Public Financing of Health Care	p. 139
Concluding Comments: The Large Presence of Public Dollars in the Financing of Health Care	p. 153
Notes	p. 154
References	p. 157
The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Services and Utilization	p. 161
The Mixed Public/Private Structure of the U.S. Health Care System	p. 161
The Resources of the U.S. System: Facilities, Technology, and Human Resources	p. 164
The Health Care System Safety Net	p. 188
Conducting Comments: The Paradoxical Underachievement of the U.S. Health Care System	p. 200
Notes	p. 202
References	p. 203
Long-Term Care of the Aged and Disabled	p. 207
The Long-Term Care Services System	p. 208
The Sustainability of Resources for Long-Term Care: Caregiving Labor and Public/Private Financing	p. 225
Directions for Long-Term Financing Policy	p. 232
Concluding Comments: A Social Justice Perspective on the Financing of Long-Term Care	p. 237
Notes	p. 238
References	p. 239
Disparities in Health and Health Care	p. 243
Conceptualizing Disparities in Health and Health Care	p. 243
Measuring Disparities in Health and Health Care	p. 252
Social Characteristics Associated With Disparities in Health and Health Care	p. 262
Disparities in Health and Burden of Disease: General Findings	p. 263
Concluding Comments: The Deep Roots of Disparities in Health Care	p. 277
Notes	p. 278
References	p. 281
Social Epidemiology: Unraveling the Social Determinants of Disparities in Health	p. 285
The Discipline of Social Epidemiology	p. 286
The "Fundamental Social Causes" Hypothesis	p. 294
Income Inequality as a Social Determinant of Health	p. 304
Theoretical Debates Concerning Income Inequality Effects	p. 306
Concluding Comments: Social Epidemiology as a Tool of Social Policy	p. 317
Notes	p. 318
References	p. 321
Prospects for Just Health Care System Reform: A Political and Principled Analysis	p. 327
The Social and Political Context of Health Care Reform	p. 327
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA)	p. 342
Conducting Comments: Toward a Progressive Vision of Universal Health Care	p. 367
Notes	p. 370
References	p. 376
Glossary	p. 381
Index	p. 391
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