An Introduction to the US Health Care System

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Springer Publishing Company, 2007年5月25日 - 328 頁

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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Chapter 1 Introduction
1
Chapter 2 Health Care Workforce
31
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
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Steven Jonas, MD, MPH, MS, is Professor of Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, and Professor, Graduate Program in Public Health, at Stony Brook University (NY).

Raymond L. Goldsteen, DrPH, MA, is Professor Emeritus of Preventive Medicine at Stony Brook University School of Medicine. He was founding director of the MPH Program and professor of Population Health in the School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota. He was also founding director of the Graduate Program in Public Health and professor of Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine at Stony Brook University. Dr. Goldsteen has an extensive background in health care and was formerly a director of the health policy research centers at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, University of Oklahoma College of Public Health, and the West Virginia University School of Medicine. He is a coauthor of Introduction to Public Health, now in its second edition, and many peer-reviewed publications in health and health care.

Karen Goldsteen, PhD, MPH, is an Affiliated Public Health Faculty member in the Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University. Prior to this, she was a research associate professor of Population Health in the MPH Program, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, at the University of North Dakota. She was also a research associate professor of Health Technology and Management in the Graduate Program in Public Health at Stony Brook University. She was awarded her MPH degree from Columbia University School of Public Health and her PhD in Community Health from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. She was a Pew Health Policy Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Goldsteen is a coauthor of Introduction to Public Health, now in its second edition, and many peer-reviewed publications on health and health care.

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