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Assessing health care reform / Committee on Assessing Health Care Reform Proposals ; Marilyn J. Field, Kathleen N. Lohr, and Karl D. Yordy, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Institute of Medicine (U.S.). Committee on Assessing Health Care Reform Proposals.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical care--United States--Finance.
- Medical care.
- Medical care--United States--Cost control.
- Medical care--United States--Quality control.
- Health services accessibility--United States.
- Health services accessibility.
- Health care reform--United States.
- Health care reform.
- Physical Description:
- vi, 76 p.
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Washington, D.C. : National Academy Press, 1993.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This book establishes a framework for assessing health care reform proposals and their implementation. It helps clarify objectives, identifies issues to be addressed in proposals, distinguishes between short- and long-term expectations and achievements, and directs attention to important but sometimes neglected questions about the organization and provision of health care services. In addition, the volume presents a discussion and analysis of issues essential to achieving fundamental goals of health care reform: to maintain and improve health and well-being, to make basic health coverage universal, and to encourage the efficient use of limited resources. The book is a useful resource for anyone developing or assessing options for reform.
- Contents:
- Assessing Health Care Reform
- Copyright
- Contents
- Preamble
- Extending Access to Health Care
- BARRIERS TO ACCESS
- FINANCIAL ACCESS
- Principles
- Practical Implications
- Assessing Access Provisions of Reform Proposals
- MORE THAN FINANCIAL ACCESS
- Containing Health Care Costs
- COSTS IN CONTEXT
- ELEMENTS OF A STRATEGY
- Specific Elements
- Elements Not Mentioned
- MOVING FROM GENERAL TO SPECIFIC POLICIES
- Administrative Costs-and Benefits
- Tax Caps and Geographic Variations in Health Care Costs
- Patient Cost Sharing and Special Problems
- Core and Supplemental Benefits
- Risk Selection versus Cost Containment
- Assuring the Quality of Care
- DEFINING QUALITY
- QUALIFY MEASUREMENT AND IMPROVEMENT
- Major Targets
- Criteria for a Strategy
- Individual and System Perspectives
- Roles and Responsibilities
- System Problems
- CLINICAL PRACTICE GUIDELINES
- SPECIFIC IMPLICATIONS
- Financing Reform
- Improving the Infrastructure for Effective Change
- GOVERNANCE AND ADMINISTRATION
- HUMAN AND PHYSICAL CAPITAL
- Human Capital
- Physical Capital
- KNOWLEDGE DEVELOPMENT
- Databases, Surveys, and Information Technologies
- Privacy and Confidentiality of Sensitive Personal Health Data
- Health Services, Outcomes, and Effectiveness Research
- Technology Assessment
- PUBLIC HEALTH POLICIES AND PROGRAMS
- OTHER INFRASTRUCTURE ISSUES
- Programs for Special Populations
- Tort Reform
- Public/Consumer Education
- Conclusion
- References.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 73-76).
- ISBN:
- 9786610195947
- 9781280195945
- 1280195940
- 9780309598200
- 0309598206
- 9780585085586
- 0585085587
- OCLC:
- 923265251
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