Health policy : crisis and reform in the U.S. health care delivery system / edited by Charlene Harrington, Carroll L. Estes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Harrington, Charlene.

Estes, Carroll L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--United States.

Medical policy.

Nursing.

United States.

Health care reform--United States.

Health care reform.

Nursing--United States.

Medical care--United States.

Medical care.

Medical care--United States--Finance.

Finance.

Delivery of Health Care--trends.

Delivery of Health Care--economics.

Health Policy.

Health Care Reform.

Medical Subjects:

Delivery of Health Care--trends.

United States.

Delivery of Health Care--economics.

Health Policy.

Health Care Reform.

Nursing.

Physical Description:

xvi, 494 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Edition:

Third edition.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2001.

Contents:

Part I Health Status and Access to Care 1

Chapter 1 Health Status of the Population and Vulnerable Groups 5

Actual Causes of Death in the United States / J. Michael McGinnis, MD, MPP, William H. Foege, MD, MPH 6

The Role of Socioeconomic Status Gradients in Explaining Differences in U.S. Adolescents' Health / Elizabeth Goodman, MD 18

The Role of Race/Ethnicity and Social Class in Minority Health Status / Herbert W. Nickens 29

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Women's Health / Nancy E. Moss 37

Who Are "the Homeless"? Reconsidering the Stability and Composition of the Homeless Population / Jo C. Phelan, PhD, Bruce G. Link, PhD 45

Mind Matters: The Importance of Mental Disorders in Public Health's 21st Century Mission / Richard Neugebauer 50

Chapter 2 Access to Care 55

The Uninsured and their Health: Micro-Level Issues / Charlene Harrington, David N. Pellow 56

Going Bare: Trends in Health Insurance Coverage, 1989 Through 1996 / Olveen Carrasquillo, MD, MPH, David U. Himmelstein, MD, Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, David H. Bor, MD 65

Health Insurance Coverage After Welfare / Bowen Garrett, John Holahan 74

The Changing Landscape of Health Care Financing and Delivery: How Are Rural Communities and Providers Responding? / Keith J. Mueller, Andy Coburn, Sam Cordes 82

Older Women's Health and Access to Care / Dorothy P. Rice, ScD (HDA) 89

Chapter 3 Aging and Long-Term Care 95

Critical Perspectives on Health and Aging / Carroll L. Estes, Karen W. Linkins 96

The Uncertain Future of Home Care / Carroll L. Estes 102

The Regulation and Enforcement of Federal Nursing Home Standards, 1991-1997 / Charlene Harrington, Helen Carrillo 114

Part II Health Care Delivery System Issues 127

Chapter 4 Organizational Change 131

Mergers and Acquisitions

Who Benefits? Who Loses? / Jerome P. Kassirer, MD 132

Medical-Industrial Complex / Carroll L. Estes, Charlene Harrington, David N. Pellow 136

The Changing U.S. Health Care System: Challenges for Responsible Public Policy / Marsha Gold 149

Hospital Organization and Outcomes / Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane, Julie Sochalski 163

Chapter 5 Labor Issues 171

The Hidden Health Care Workforce: Executive Summary / California Twenty-First Century Workforce Project 172

Safe Staffing Law Puts California Nurses in the Spotlight / Charles Idelson 176

Medical Care Employment in the United States, 1968 to 1993: The Importance of Health Sector Jobs for African Americans and Women / David U. Himmelstein, MD, James P. Lewontin, Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH 179

Slow Growth in the United States of the Number of Minorities in the RN Workforce / Peter I. Buerhaus, David Auerbach 186

Health Care Reform: Its Effects on Nurses / Patricia Corey-Lisle, MSN, RN, CS-P, Anita J. Tarzian, PhD, RN, Marlene Z. Cohen, PhD, RN, Alison M. Trinkoff, ScD, RN 193

Chapter 6 Quality of Care 201

To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System: Executive Summary / Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan, Molla S. Donaldson 202

Nurse Staffing Levels and Adverse Events Following Surgery in U.S. Hospitals / Christine Kovner, Peter J. Gergen 214

Quality of Care in Investor-Owned vs. Not-for-Profit HMOs / David U. Himmelstein, MD, Steffie Woolhandler, MD, MPH, Ida Hellander, MD, Sidney M. Wolfe, MD 223

Experts Recommend Minimum Nurse Staffing Standards for Nursing Facilities in the United States / Charlene Harrington, PhD, RN, FAAN, Christine Kovner, PhD, RN, FAAN, Mathy Mezey, PhD, RN, FAAN, Jeanie Kayser-Jones, PhD, RN, FAAN, Sarah Burger, RN, MPH, Martha Mohler, RN, MMN, MHSA, Robert Burke, PhD, David Zimmerman, PhD 230

Part III The Economics of Health Care 245

Chapter 7 Financing Health Care 249

When Money is the Mission: The High Costs of Investor-Owned Care / Steffie Woolhandler, David U. Himmelstein 250

Health Spending in 1998: Signals of Change / Katharine Levit, Cathy Cowan, Helen Lazenbry, Arthur Sensenig, Patricia McDonnell, Jean Stiller, Anne Martin, The Health Accounts Team 254

Economic Analysis in Health Care / Wendy Max, PhD 263

Chapter 8 Public Financing 275

Access to Care: How Much Difference Does Medicaid Make? / Marc L. Berk, Claudia L. Schur 276

Rebuilding Medicare for the 21st Century: A Challenge for the Medicare Commission and Congress / Thomas Bodenheimer, MD, MPH, Kevin Grumbach, MD, Bruce Lee Livingston, MPP, Don R. McCanne, MD, Jonathan Oberlander, PhD, Dorothy P. Rice, ScD (Hon.), Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, PhD, MPH 284

The Difference Different Approaches Make: Comparing Proposals to Expand Health Insurance / Judith Feder, Cori Uccello, Ellen O'Brien 298

Chapter 9 Private Insurance and Managed Care 315

The Practice and Ethics of Risk-Related Health Insurance / Donald W. Light 316

Demistifying Policy Jargon: ERISA / Martha Corona, BSN, RN, Carole P. Jennings, PhD, RN 324

Health Care Organizational Change: Implications for Access to Care and Its Measurement / Robert H. Miller 326

The New Dominance of Managed Care: Insurance Trends in the 1990s / Gail A. Jensen, Michael A. Morrisey, Shannon Gaffney, Derek K. Liston 341

Part IV Reforming the U.S. Health Care System 353

Chapter 10 Health Politics and Political Action 357

Health Policy Through the Looking Glass / Lester E. Block, DDS, MPH 358

Primer on Policy: The Legislative Process at the Federal Level / Sara Hart, Nadine Jackson 370

Can Meaningful Health Policy Be Developed in a Political System? / Catherine J. Dodd, RN, MS 373

Nurse, Interrupted: The Other Health Care Crisis / Suzanne Gordon 383

Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform / Vicente Navarro, MD 391

National Health Insurance in the United States: A Drama in Too Many Acts / Milton Terris 397

Chapter 11 International Health Systems 413

What Is Right About the Canadian Health Care System? / Robert Evans, Noralou P. Roos 414

Health Spending, Access, and Outcomes: Trends in Industrialized Countries / Gerard F. Anderson, Jean-Pierre Poullier 417

Competition, Cooperation, or Control? Tales from the British National Health Service / Julian Le Grand 428

The Global Burden of Mental Disorders / T. Bedirhan Ustun, MD, PhD 437

Chapter 12 Health Reform for the Future 445

Fostering Justice-based Health Care System / Donald W. Light 446

A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal / David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woolhandler, the Writing Committee of the Working Group on Program Design, Physicians for a National Health Program 455

Health and Equity in the World in the Era of "Globalization" / Vicente Navarro 467.

Notes:

Prev. ed. published with title: Health policy and nursing.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0763714607

OCLC:

44681708