Changing the U.S. Health Care System
Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management
3rd Edition
Published on 1. February 2007
Book
Hardback
744 pages
978-0-7879-8524-0 (ISBN)
Description
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 chapters from the previous edition emphasize the most recent developments in the field.
Reviews / Votes
"The book is sobering and pulls no punches as it describes the myriad strengths and weaknesses on both policy and health care..." (PsycCritiques, 09/19/2007)More details
Edition
3rd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Illustrations
Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 238 mm
Width: 182 mm
Thickness: 41 mm
Weight
1368 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7879-8524-0 (9780787985240)
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Schweitzer Classification
Other editions
New editions
Gerald F. Kominski
Changing the U.S. Health Care System
Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management
Book
01/2014
4th Edition
Jossey-Bass
€91.50
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Persons
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.
Content
Figures and Tables. Foreword (Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Linda Rosenstock). The Editors. The Authors. Introduction and Overview (Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski). Acknowledgments. PART ONE: ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE. 1. Improving Access to Care in America: Individual and Contextual Indicators (Ronald M. Andersen, Pamela L. Davidson). 2. Ethnic Disparities in Health Status (Antronette K. Yancey, Roshan Bastani, Beth A. Glenn). 3. Disparities in Health Care (Leo S. Morales, Alexander N. Ortega). 4. Public Policies to Extend Health Care Coverage (E. Richard Brown, with Shana Alex Lavarreda). PART TWO: COSTS OF HEALTH CARE. 5. Measuring Health Care Costs and Trends (Thomas H. Rice). 6. Containing Health Care Costs (Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski). 7. Controlling Pharmaceutical Prices and Expenditures (Stuart O. Schweitzer, William S. Comanor). PART THREE: QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE. 8. Measuring Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life (Patricia A. Ganz, Mark S. Litwin, Ron D. Hays, Robert M. Kaplan). 9. Evaluating the Quality of Care (Elizabeth A. McGlynn). 10. Public Release of Information on Quality (Elizabeth A. McGlynn, John L. Adams). 11. Health Care Information Systems (Jeff Luck, Paul Fu Jr.). 12. Performance Measurement of Nursing Care (Jack Needleman, Ellen T. Kurtzman, Kenneth W. Kizer). PART FOUR: SPECIAL POPULATIONS. 13. Long-Term Care and the Elderly Population (Steven P. Wallace, Emily K. Abel, Nadereh Pourat, Linda Delp). 14. AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for Health Services and Public Health (David S. Zingmond, William E. Cunningham). 15. Health Reform for Children and Families (Moira Inkelas, Neal Halfon, David Lee Wood, Mark A. Schuster). 16. Mental Health Services and Policy Issues (Susan L. Ettner, Janet C. Link). 17. Women's Health: Key Issues in Access to Health Insurance Coverage and to Services Among Nonelderly Women (Roberta Wyn, Beatriz M. Solis). 18. Homeless Persons (Lisa Arangua, Lillian Gelberg). PART FIVE: DIRECTIONS FOR CHANGE. 19. Managed Care and the Growth of Competition (Gerald F. Kominski, Glenn A. Melnick). 20. Medicare Reform (Gerald F. Kominski, Jeanne T. Black, Thomas H. Rice). 21. Public Health and Personal Health Services (Lester Breslow, Jonathan E. Fielding). 22. The Continuing Issue of Medical Malpractice Liability (Ruth Roemer). 23. Ethical Issues in Public Health and Health Services (Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, Ruth Roemer). Index.