Research Catalog

Title

Changing the U.S. health care system : key issues in health services, policy, and management / [edited by] Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski ; foreword by Abdelmonem A. Afifi.

Publication

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, 2001.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Andersen, Ronald
• Rice, Thomas H.
• Kominski, Gerald F.

Description

xliii, 553 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Jossey-Bass health series

Uniform Title

Jossey-Bass health series.

Subjects

• Medical policy > United States
• Health Care Reform
• Medical care > United States
• Health Policy
• Delivery of Health Care
• Health care reform > United States
• United States

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Foreword / Abdelmonem A. Afifi -- Introduction and Overview / Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice and Gerald F. Kominski -- Pt. 1. Access to Health Care. 1. Improving Access to Care in America: Individual and Contextual Indicators / Ronald M. Andersen and Pamela L. Davidson. 2. Public Policies to Extend Health Care Coverage / E. Richard Brown -- Pt. 2. Costs of Health Care. 3. Measuring Health Care Costs and Trends / Thomas H. Rice. 4. Containing Health Care Costs / Thomas H. Rice and Gerald F. Kominski. 5. Pharmaceutical Prices and Expenditures / Stuart O. Schweitzer and William S. Comanor -- Pt. 3. Quality of Health Care. 6. Measuring Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life / Patricia A. Ganz and Mark S. Litwin. 7. Evaluating the Quality of Care / Elizabeth A. McGlynn and Robert H. Brook. 8. Public Release of Information on Quality / Elizabeth A. McGlynn and John L. Adams -- Pt. 4. Special Populations.
• 9. Long-Term Care and the Elderly Population / Steven P. Wallace, Emily K. Abel and Pamela Stefanowicz / [et al.]. 10. AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for Health Services and Public Health / David M. Mosen, Denise R. Globe and William E. Cunningham. 11. Health Reform for Children and Families / Neal Halfon, Moira Inkelas and David L. Wood / [et al.]. 12. Mental Health Services and Policy Issues / Susan L. Ettner. 13. Women's Health: Key Issues in Access to Insurance Coverage and to Services Among Nonelderly Women / Roberta Wyn and Beatriz M. Solis. 14. Homeless Persons / Lillian Gelberg and Lisa Arangua -- Pt. 5. Directions for Change. 15. Managed Care and the Growth of Competition / Gerald F. Kominski and Glenn Melnick. 16. Medicare Reform / Jeanne T. Black and Gerald F. Kominski. 17. The Role of Prevention / Charles Lewis. 18. Public Health and Personal Health Services / Lester Breslow and Jonathan E. Fielding.
• 19. The Continuing Issue of Medical Malpractice Liability / Ruth Roemer. 20. Ethical Issues in Public Health and Health Services / Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Ruth Roemer.

ISBN

0787954047 (hbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

00050675

OCLC

• 45162172
• ocm45162172
• SCSB-4790507

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries