Book description
Health Care in the United States combines an explanation of population health with a comprehensive introduction to health services delivery. The author, an expert on health care policy and management, shows how the U.S. health services system is organized, managed, financed, and evaluated. Filled with numerous examples and tables, this important resource illustrates key concepts, trends, and features of the system. It places special emphasis on recent health care reform legislation and its implications for the future.
Health Care in the United States reviews the historical origins of health care, its resource requirements, costs, quality, and contributions to both individual and social well-being. By combining basic concepts in population health with coverage of health services, the book offers extraordinary breadth of information in a highly accessible, easy-to-read text.
Along with an in-depth look at the origins and possible impact of recent health reform legislation, the book explains the ongoing dilemmas that face the health care system and highlights health and disease in the modern world, the fundamentals of epidemiology, and health behavior. Health Care in the United States also explains the special challenges of managing health service personnel and organizations. The author reviews key innovations in financing and delivery, explaining the outcomes of cost sharing, HMO enrollment, and rationing of services.
This vital resource is written for students and professionals in health care management and policy, as well as public health, medical sociology, medical anthropology, social work, political science, and most, if not all, clinical fields.
Table of contents
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Table of Figures
- Dedication
- PREFACE
- THE AUTHOR
- Acknowledgements
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PART 1 - THE SYSTEM AND ITS TASKS
- CHAPTER 1 - UNDERSTANDING HEALTH CARE
- CHAPTER 2 - THE U.S. HEALTH CARE SYSTEM
- CHAPTER 3 - MAJOR HEALTH PROBLEMS IN MODERN SOCIETY
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CHAPTER 4 - HUMAN BEHAVIOR, HEALTH, AND HEALTH CARE
- THE BEHAVIORAL DIMENSION
- THE CONCEPT OF THE SICK ROLE
- HEALTH RISK BEHAVIOR
- USE OF HEALTH SERVICES
- The Behavioral Model of Health Care Utilization
- ADVERSE PATIENT BEHAVIOR
- HEALTH LITERACY AND CULTURAL COMPETENCE
- COMPLEMENTARY AND ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE
- CONSUMER PREFERENCES AND HEALTH CARE MARKETING
- KEY TERMS
- SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
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PART 2 - MEANS OF DELIVERY
- CHAPTER 5 - HEALTH CARE ORGANIZATIONS
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CHAPTER 6 - THE HEALTH CARE LABOR FORCE
- HEALTH CARE LABOR FORCE ISSUES
- THE CONCEPT OF PROFESSIONALISM
- HISTORY, BACKGROUND, AND CHALLENGES IN THREE KEY FIELDS
- CLINICIANS AS MANAGERS
- THE HEALTH CARE LABOR FORCE: FACTS AND FIGURES
- LABOR FORCE DYNAMICS IN THE HEALTH PROFESSIONS
- PROFESSIONAL ETHICS, OVERSIGHT, AND DISCIPLINE
- KEY TERMS
- SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 7 - HEALTH CARE EXPENDITURES, FINANCING, AND INSURANCE
- CHAPTER 8 - BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH AND PROGRAM EVALUATION
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PART 3 - PATHS FORWARD
- CHAPTER 9 - IMPACT OF INNOVATION
- CHAPTER 10 - HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION
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CHAPTER 11 - GOVERNMENT, POLICY, AND POLITICS IN HEALTH CARE
- GOVERNMENT AND HEALTH CARE IN THE UNITED STATES
- GOVERNMENT PARTICIPATION IN HEALTH CARE
- THE PUBLIC ENVIRONMENT
- THE MEANING OF PUBLIC POLICY
- POLITICS: THE DRIVER OF POLICY
- WINNING AND LOSING IN HEALTH CARE POLITICS: THREE CASE STUDIES
- LESSONS LEARNED
- THE CASE AGAINST GOVERNMENT IN HEALTH CARE
- KEY TERMS
- SUMMARY
- DISCUSSION QUESTIONS
- CHAPTER 12 - CHOICES FOR THE FUTURE
- GLOSSARY
- NOTES
- INDEX
Product information
- Title: Health Care in the United States: Organization, Management, and Policy
- Author(s):
- Release date: April 2010
- Publisher(s): Jossey-Bass
- ISBN: 9780787995478
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