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Health care, U.S.A. : understanding its organization and delivery / Harry A. Sultz, Kristina M. Young.
Van Pelt Library RA395.A3 S897 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sultz, Harry A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--United States.
- Medical care.
- United States.
- Medical policy--United States.
- Medical policy.
- Delivery of Health Care.
- Health Policy.
- Medical Subjects:
- Delivery of Health Care.
- United States.
- Health Policy.
- Physical Description:
- xiv, 497 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
- Edition:
- Fourth edition.
- Other Title:
- Health care, USA
- Place of Publication:
- Sudbury, Mass. : Jones and Bartlett, 2003.
- Summary:
- The Fourth Edition of Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery offers readers a clear, population-based perspective, with updated information on the health care industry's continually evolving trends in how medicine is practiced, financed, and delivered. Authors Harry Sultz and Kristina Young turn complex issues into comprehensible subject matter, allowing readers to establish a primary grounding in the health care delivery system and how it operates. This edition updates all financial, service utilization, policy information, and trends. Building upon history, the Fourth Edition highlights momentous adjustments in the market-driven system as a result of the managed care backlash and of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997, its amendments, and contemporary policy directives. Current issues of the U.S. health care delivery system, including Medicare, Medicaid, patient rights, personnel supply, and new government health priorities post-September 11th, are also discussed. Using a logical, factually integrated format, Health Care USA continues to provide health care professionals and students with a thorough understanding of the intricate system in which they practice.
- Contents:
- Chapter 1 Overview of Health Care: A Population Perspective 1
- Chapter 2 Benchmark Developments in U.S. Health Care 33
- Chapter 3 Hospitals: Origin, Organization, and Performance 63
- Chapter 4 Ambulatory Care 115
- Chapter 5 Medical Education and the Changing Practice of Medicine 143
- Chapter 6 Health Care Personnel 179
- Chapter 7 Financing Health Care 221
- Chapter 8 Managed Care 271
- Chapter 9 Long-Term Care 297
- Chapter 10 Mental Health Services 335
- Chapter 11 Public Health and the Role of Government in Health Care 367
- Chapter 12 Research: How Health Care Advances 395
- Chapter 13 The Future of Health Care 419.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Class of 1924 Book Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0763725714
- OCLC:
- 83800858
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