Health Systems in Transition : USA / Thomas Rice [and three others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rice, Thomas H., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Health services administration--United States.

Health services administration.

Medical care--Evaluation.

Medical care.

Medical care--Finance.

Medical care--United States--Evaluation.

Medical care--United States--Finance.

United States.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (505 pages)

Edition:

Second edition.

Place of Publication:

2021.

Toronto, Ontario : University of Toronto Press, 2021.

Summary:

The book provides a thorough review of the U.S. health care system, including its organization and financing, care delivery, recent reforms, and an evaluation of the system's performance.

Contents:

Cover

Title Page

Copyright

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgements

List of abbreviations

List of tables, figures and boxes

Abstract

Executive summary

Authors' Note

1 Introduction

1.1 Geography and sociodemography

1.2 Economic context

1.3 Political context

1.4 Health status

2 Organization and governance

2.1 Historical background

2.2 Organization of the healthcare system

2.3 Decentralization and centralization

2.4 Planning

2.5 Intersectorality

2.6 Patient empowerment

2.7 Regulation

3 Financing

3.1 Health expenditure

3.2 Sources of revenue, financing and financial flows

3.3 Medicare

3.4 Medicaid

3.5 Private health insurance

3.6 Out-of-pocket payments

3.7 Payment mechanisms

4 Physical and human resources

4.1 Physical resources

4.2 Human resources

5 Provision of services

5.1 Patient pathways

5.2 Public health

5.3 Outpatient services: primary care

5.4 Outpatient services: specialty care

5.5 Other outpatient services: ambulatory surgical, emergencyand urgent care

5.6 Acute inpatient care

5.7 Dental care

5.8 Behavioural healthcare

5.9 Pharmaceutical care

5.10 Post-acute care: rehabilitation, intermittent home careand subacute care

5.11 Long-term care

5.12 Palliative care

5.13 Services from informal care-givers

5.14 Racial and ethnic minorities, low-income individuals, the uninsuredand other vulnerable populations

6 Principal health reforms

6.1 History of US health reforms

6.2 The Affordable Care Act

6.3 The future of the ACA

7 Assessment of the health system

7.1 Health system governance

7.2 Accessibility

7.3 Financial protection

7.4 Healthcare quality

7.5 Health outcomes

7.6 Health system efficiency

8 Conclusions

9 Appendices

9.1 References

9.2 Useful websites.

9.3 HiT methodology and production process

9.4 About the authors

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-4875-3933-9

1-4875-3932-0

OCLC:

1276862708