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Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care / ed. by David Mechanic, David Colby, Lynn B. Rogut, James R. Knickman.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2005]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (294 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780813535777
  • 9780813541099
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 362.10973 22//oclceng
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. The Context of Health and Health Care Policy -- CHAPTER 1. Morality, Politics, and Health Policy -- CHAPTER 2. Cross Pressures -- CHAPTER 3. The Employer-Based Health Insurance System -- CHAPTER 4. Entrepreneurial Challenges to Integrated Health Care -- PART II. Promoting Population Health and Reducing Disparities -- CHAPTER 5. Fundamental Sources of Health Inequalities -- CHAPTER 6. A Public Health Approach to Firearms Policy -- CHAPTER 7. Tobacco Policy in the United States -- CHAPTER 8. Patterns and Causes of Disparities in Health -- CHAPTER 9. Addressing Racial Inequality in Health Care -- PART III. Improving Quality of Care -- CHAPTER 10. Still Demanding Medical Excellence -- CHAPTER 11. Preventing Medical Errors -- CHAPTER 12. Improving Quality through Nursing -- CHAPTER 13. Improving Medicare for Beneficiaries with Disabilities -- CHAPTER 14. Specialization, Specialty Organizations, and the Quality of Health Care -- PART IV. Frameworks for Fairness in Health Care -- CHAPTER 15. Integrating People with Mental Illness into Health Insurance and Social Services -- CHAPTER 16. Accountability for Reasonable Limits to Care -- CONTRIBUTORS -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX
Summary: Health care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its $1.6 trillion annual expenditures involve a host of competing interests. While arguably the nation offers among the most technologically advanced medical care in the world, the American system consistently under performs relative to its resources. Gaps in financing and service delivery pose major barriers to improving health, reducing disparities, achieving universal insurance coverage, enhancing quality, controlling costs, and meeting the needs of patients and families. Bringing together twenty-five of the nation's leading experts in health care policy and public health, this book provides a much-needed perspective on how our health care system evolved, why we face the challenges that we do, and why reform is so difficult to achieve. The essays tackle tough issues including: socioeconomic disadvantage, tobacco, obesity, gun violence, insurance gaps, the rationing of services, the power of special interests, medical errors, and the nursing shortage. Linking the nation's health problems to larger political, cultural, and philosophical contexts, Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care offers a compelling look at where we stand and where we need to be headed.
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Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- PART I. The Context of Health and Health Care Policy -- CHAPTER 1. Morality, Politics, and Health Policy -- CHAPTER 2. Cross Pressures -- CHAPTER 3. The Employer-Based Health Insurance System -- CHAPTER 4. Entrepreneurial Challenges to Integrated Health Care -- PART II. Promoting Population Health and Reducing Disparities -- CHAPTER 5. Fundamental Sources of Health Inequalities -- CHAPTER 6. A Public Health Approach to Firearms Policy -- CHAPTER 7. Tobacco Policy in the United States -- CHAPTER 8. Patterns and Causes of Disparities in Health -- CHAPTER 9. Addressing Racial Inequality in Health Care -- PART III. Improving Quality of Care -- CHAPTER 10. Still Demanding Medical Excellence -- CHAPTER 11. Preventing Medical Errors -- CHAPTER 12. Improving Quality through Nursing -- CHAPTER 13. Improving Medicare for Beneficiaries with Disabilities -- CHAPTER 14. Specialization, Specialty Organizations, and the Quality of Health Care -- PART IV. Frameworks for Fairness in Health Care -- CHAPTER 15. Integrating People with Mental Illness into Health Insurance and Social Services -- CHAPTER 16. Accountability for Reasonable Limits to Care -- CONTRIBUTORS -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX

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Health care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its $1.6 trillion annual expenditures involve a host of competing interests. While arguably the nation offers among the most technologically advanced medical care in the world, the American system consistently under performs relative to its resources. Gaps in financing and service delivery pose major barriers to improving health, reducing disparities, achieving universal insurance coverage, enhancing quality, controlling costs, and meeting the needs of patients and families. Bringing together twenty-five of the nation's leading experts in health care policy and public health, this book provides a much-needed perspective on how our health care system evolved, why we face the challenges that we do, and why reform is so difficult to achieve. The essays tackle tough issues including: socioeconomic disadvantage, tobacco, obesity, gun violence, insurance gaps, the rationing of services, the power of special interests, medical errors, and the nursing shortage. Linking the nation's health problems to larger political, cultural, and philosophical contexts, Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care offers a compelling look at where we stand and where we need to be headed.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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