Health care in the United States: organization, management, and policy

This comprehensive new text explains basic concepts in population health and health services delivery to clarify how the U.S. health services system is organized, managed, financed, and evaluated. Numerous examples and tables illustrate key concepts, trends and features of the system. This book includes a glossary which lists and defines all the key terms used in the book, and a listingof all acronyms. In a clear, cohesive format, Health and Health Care in the United States provides a comprehensive overview the basic structures and operations of the US health systemfrom its historical origins and resources, to its individual services, cost, and quality. By covering basic concepts in population health with coverage of health services, the book offers extraordinary breadth of information in a highly accessible, easy-to-read text that clarifies the complexities of pubilc health, health care services, and health organization/system finance, while presenting a solid overview of how the various components fit together. This book targets masters degree students in public health and health services, as well as medical sociology, medical anthropology, social work, public policy, and political science. It can be used in schools of public health; nursing schools; and bachelors degree level programs, including undergraduate programs in public health and programs in human biology. Table of Contents: PART ONE: INTRODUCTION I. AIM OF THIS BOOK II. FEATURES OF THE UNITED STATES HEALTH CARE SYSTEM III. CONTINUING DILEMMAS OF US HEALTH CARE PART TWO:HEALTH AND ILLNESS: THE HEALTHCARE SYSTEM'S TASKS IV. HEALTH AND DISEASE IN THE MODERN WORLD V. FUNDAMENTALS OF EPIDEMIOLOGY VI. HEALTH BEHAVIOR PART THREE: THE HEALTH CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM VII. PROVIDERS OF HEALTH SERVICES: ORGANIZATIONS VIII. PROVIDERS OF HEALTH CARE: PERSONNEL IX. PAYING FOR HEALTH CARE: THEFINANCING SYSTEM PART FOUR: INNOVATIONS IN FINANCING AND DELIVERY X. SYSTEM CHANGES AND THEIR IMPLICATIONS XI. OUTCOMES OF COST SHARING XII. HMO ENROLLMENT, USE OF SERVICES, AND OUTCOMES XIII. HEALTH CARE TECHNOLOGY PART FIVE: HEALTHCARE AND THE PUBLIC INTEREST 1. POLITICS AND POLICYMAKING 2. RESEARCH AND EVALUATION 3. HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION PART SIX: THE FUTURE OF HEALTH CARE XX. WHERE ARE WE NOW AND WHERE ARE WE GOING: IMMEDIATE CONCERNSHoward Greenwald, Ph.D., is Professor of Management and Policy in the School of Policy, Planning, and Development, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA. He also is Clinical Professor, Department of Health Services, School of Public and Community Health, University of Washington, Seattle. He is a consultant in health care, policing policy, and minority issues. His research interests include social epidemiology; health behavior; health policy; health service delivery; organizational behavior, survey design and management, and political sociology. He has served as director of USC's Health Services Administration Program, chairman of the Western Network for Education in Health Administration, and is executive board member of the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA) in Sacramento. He is currently director of USCs W. K. Kellogg Hispanic Leadership Project. He has made major contributions to research on medical manpower, health promotion, and cancer survival. He is the author, with Wallace Beery, of Health for All, published by Health Administration Press(2002). His book, Who Survives Cancer? (University of California Press, 1992), reports the results of a ten-year survival study. Earlier work includes Social Problems in Cancer Control (Ballinger, 1980), Work and Health: Inseparable in the Eighties (Western Institute for Occupational/Environmental Studies, 1980), and articles in Public Health Reports, Public Administration Review, Journal of the American Public Health Association, Milbrook Memorial fund Quarterly, and other academic journals.

• ISBN: 978-0-7879-9547-8
• Editorial: Jossey Bass
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 400
• Fecha Publicación: 21/04/2010
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés