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Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System

by: Harrington, Charlene; Estes, Carroll L.

Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System

by: Harrington, Charlene; Estes, Carroll L.

ISBN 13:
9780763714604
ISBN 10:
0763714607
Edition: 3rd
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 10/01/2000
Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
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The Fifth Edition of this best-selling health policy text is updated with a collection of new articles on various health policies. Health Policy provides a basic overview of the health policy and political process as it relates to thte health status of the US, the organization and issues of the healthcare system, and healthcare economics.

Foreword

Introduction

xiii

Acknowledgements

xvi

Part I Health Status and Access to Care

(126)

Health Status of the Population and Vulnerable Groups

(50)

Actual Causes of Death in the United States

(12)

J. Michael McGinnis

William H. Foege

The Role of Socioeconomic Status Gradients in Explaining Differences in U.S. Adolescents' Health

(11)

Elizabeth Goodman

The Role of Race/Ethnicity and Social Class in Minority Health Status

(8)

Herbert W. Nickens

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Women's Health

(8)

Nancy E. Moss

Who Are ``The Homeless''? Reconsidering the Stability and Composition of the Homeless Population

(5)

Jo C. Phelan

Bruce G. Link

Mind Matters: The Importance of Mental Disorders in Public Health's 21st Century Mission

(5)

Richard Neugebauer

Access to Care

(40)

The Uninsured and their Health: Micro-Level Issues

(9)

Charlene Harrington

David N. Pellow

Going Bare: Trends in Health Insurance Coverage, 1989 Through 1996

(9)

Olveen Carrasquillo

David U. Himmelstein

Steffie Woolhandler

David H. Bor

Health Insurance Coverage After Welfare

(8)

Bowen Garrett

John Holahan

The changing Landscape of Health Care Financing and Delivery: How Are Rural Communities and Providers Responding?

(7)

Keith J. Mueller

Andy Coburn

Sam Cordes

Older Women's Health and Access to Care

(6)

Dorothy P. Rice

Aging and Long-Term Care

(32)

Critical Perspectives on Health and Aging

(6)

Carroll L. Estes

Karen W. Linkins

The Uncertain Future of Home Care

102

(12)

Carroll L. Estes

The Regulations and Enforcement of Federal Nursing Home Standards, 1991-1997

114

(13)

Charlene Harrington

Helen Carrillo

Part II Health Care Delivery System Issues

127

(118)

Organizational Change

131

(40)

Mergers and Acquisitions--Who Benefits? Who Loses?

132

(4)

Jerome P. Kassirer

Medical-Industrial Complex

136

(13)

Carroll L. Estes

Charlene Harrington

David N. Pellow

The Changing U.S. Health Care System: Challenges for Responsible Public Policy

149

(14)

Marsha Gold

Hospital Organization and Outcomes

163

(8)

Linda H. Aiken

Douglas M. Sloane

Julie Sochalski

Labor Issues

171

(30)

The Hidden Health Care Workforce: Executive Summary

California Twenty-First Century Workforce Project

172

(4)

Safe Staffing Law Puts California Nurses in the Spotlight

176

(3)

Charles Idelson

Medical Care Employment in the United States, 1968 to 1993; The Importance of Health Sector Jobs for African Americans and Women

179

(7)

David U. Himmelstein

James P. Lewontin

Steffie Woolhandler

Slow Growth in the United States of the Number of Minorities in the RN Workforce

186

(7)

Peter I. Buerhaus

David Auerbach

Health Care Reform: Its Effects on Nurses

193

(8)

Patricia Corey-Lisle

Anita J. Tarzian

Marlene Z. Cohen

Alison M. Trinkoff

Quality of Care

201

(44)

To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System: Executive Summary

202

(12)

Linda T. Kohn

Janet M. Corrigan

Molla S. Donaldson

Nurse Staffing Levels and Adverse Events Following Surgery in U.S. Hospitals

214

(9)

Christine Kovner

Peter J. Gergen

Quality of Care in Investor-Owned vs. Not-for-Profit HMOs

223

(7)

David U. Himmelstein

Steffie Woolhandler

Ida Hellander

Sidney M. Wolfe

Experts Recommend Minimum Nurse Staffing Standards for Nursing Facilities in the United States

230

(15)

Charlene Harrington

Christine Kovner

Mathy Mezey

Jeanie Kayser-Jones

Sarah Burger

Martha Mohler

Robert Burke

David Zimmerman

Part III The Economics of Health Care

245

(108)

Financing Health Care

249

(26)

When Money is the Mission: The High Costs of Investor-Owned Care

250

(4)

Steffie Woolhandler

David U. Himmelstein

Health Spending in 1998: Signals of Change

254

(9)

Katharine Levit

Cathy Cowan

Helen Lazenbry

Arthur Sensenig

Patricia McDonnell

Jean Stiller

Anne Martin

Economics Analysis in Health Care

263

(12)

Wendy Max

Public Financing

275

(40)

Access to Care: How Much Difference Does Medicaid Make?

276

(8)

Marc L. Berk

Claudia L. Schur

Rebuilding Medicare for the 21st Century: A Challenge for the Medicare Commission and Congress

284

(14)

Thomas Bodenheimer

Kevin Grumbach

Bruce Lee Livingston

Don R. McCanne

Jonathan Oberlander

Dorothy

Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau

The Difference Different Approaches Make: Comparing Proposals to Expand Health Insurance

298

(17)

Judith Feder

Cori Uccello

Ellen O'Brein

Private Insurance and Managed Care

315

(38)

The Practice and Ethics of Risk-Related Health Insurance

316

(8)

Donald W. Light

Demistifying Policy Jargons: ERISA

324

(2)

Martha Corona

Carole P. Jennings

Health Care Organizational Change: Implications for Access to Care and its Measurement

326

(15)

Robert H. Miller

The New Dominance of Managed Care: Insurance Trends in the 1990s

341

(12)

Gail A. Jensen

Michael A. Morrisey

Shannon Gaffney

Derek K. Liston

Part IV Reforming the U.S. Health Care System

353

(124)

Health Politics and Political Action

357

(56)

Health Policy Through The Looking Glass

358

(12)

Lester E. Block

Primer on Policy: The Legislative Process at the Federal Level

370

(3)

Sara Hart

Nadine Jackson

Can Meaningful Health Policy be Developed in a Political System?

373

(10)

Catherine J. Donald

Nurse, Interrupted: The Other Health Care Crisis

383

(8)

Suzanne Gordon

Why Congress did not Enact Health Care Reform

391

(6)

Vicente Navarro

National Health Insurance in the United States: A Drama in Too Many Acts

397

(16)

Milton Terris

International Health Systems

413

(32)

What is Right About the Canadian Health Care System?

414

(3)

Robert Evans

Noralou P. Roos

Health Spending, Access, and Outcomes: Trends in Industrialized Countries

417

(11)

Gerard E. Anderson

Jean-Pierre Poullier

Competition, Cooperation, or Control? Tales from the British National Health Service

428

(9)

Julian Le Grand

The Global Burden of Mental Disorders

437

(8)

T. Bedirhan Ustun

Health Reform for the Future

445

(32)

Fostering Justice-based Health Care System

446

(9)

Donald W. Light

A National Health Programs for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal

455

(12)

David U. Himmelstein

Steffie Woolhandler

Health and Equity in the World in the Era of ``Globalization''

467

(10)

Vicente Navarro

Conclusions

477

(2)

Glossary

479

(6)

Index

485

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Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System

Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System

9780763714604

0763714607

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