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Genre/Form: | Academic Dissertation dissertations masters theses doctoral dissertations theses Academic theses Thèses et écrits académiques |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Jonas, Steven. Introduction to the U.S. health care system. New York : Springer Publishing Company, ©2007 (DLC) 2007009577 |
Material Type: | Document, Thesis/dissertation, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Steven Jonas; Raymond L Goldsteen; Karen Goldsteen |
ISBN: | 9786610866908 6610866902 0826103154 9780826103154 |
OCLC Number: | 1034901553 |
Notes: | Title from e-book title screen (viewed September 13, 2007). |
Description: | 1 online resource (xix, 308 pages) : illustrations |
Contents: | Cover -- Contents -- Foreword to the Sixth Edition -- Preface to the Sixth Edition -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1 Introduction -- Health and Health Care -- Health Care Systems -- U.S. Health Care System -- Future of the U.S. Health Care System -- Chapter 2 Health Care Workforce -- Overview -- Physicians -- Nursing -- Physician Assistants -- Health Care Workforce Outside the Hospital and Physician Office -- Conclusions -- Chapter 3 Hospitals and Other Health Care Institutions -- Introduction -- Some Numbers -- Hospital Structure -- Public General Hospitals -- The Hospital in the Present Era -- Long-Term Care: The Example of Nursing -- Chapter 4 Primary and Ambulatory Care -- Primary Care -- Ambulatory Care -- Conclusions -- Chapter 5 Government and the Health Care System -- Introduction -- Some Historical Background -- The Constitutional Basis of Government Authority in Health Care -- The Health Care Functions of Government -- The Federal Government and the Provision of Health Services -- State Governments' Role in Health -- Local Governments' Role in Health Services -- Problems in Public Health -- Conclusions -- Chapter 6 Financing -- Introduction -- How Much Is Spent -- Where the Money Comes From, Within the System -- Where the Money Goes -- How the Money Is Paid: Providers, Payers, and Payments -- Conclusions -- Chapter 7 Health Care System Performance -- Introduction -- Quality of Health Care -- Equity of Health Care -- Efficiency of Health Care -- A National Scorecard -- Data and Information Technology -- Conclusions -- Chapter 8 From Prepaid Group Medical Practice to Managed Care -- Introduction -- Group Medical Practice -- Health Maintenance Organizations -- Managed Care -- Integrated Delivery Systems -- Managed Care Today -- Some Policy Issues in Managed Care -- Chapter 9 Health Care Reform -- Introduction -- History of Change -- National Health Insurance as Solution -- Some Contemporary Approaches to NHI -- The Present Situation -- Epilogue -- A New Era of Change? -- What Kind of Change? -- A Private System? -- A Public System Is Preferable -- Appendix I List of Critical Reports on the U.S. Health Care Delivery System, 1927-2006 -- Appendix II Sources of Data -- Appendix III Glossary of Terms -- Index -- Last Page. |
Other Titles: | Introduction to the US health care system |
Responsibility: | Steven Jonas, Raymond L. Goldsteen, Karen Goldsteen. |
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