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Changing the U.S. health care system : key issues in health services policy and management

Title
Changing the U.S. health care system : key issues in health services policy and management / Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski, editors ; foreword by Abdelmonem A. Afifi and Linda Rosenstock.
Publication
San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2007], ©2007.

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Additional Authors
  • Andersen, Ronald.
  • Rice, Thomas H.
  • Kominski, Gerald F.
Description
xlv, 693 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
Subjects
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
1. Improving access to care in America : individual and contextual indicators / Ronald M. Andersen and Pamela L. Davidson -- 2. Ethnic disparities in health status / Antronette K. Yancey, Roshan Bastani and Beth A. Glenn -- 3. Disparities in health care / Leo S. Morales and Alexander N. Ortega -- 4. Public policies to extend health care coverage / E. Richard Brown and Shana Alex Lavarreda -- 5. Measuring health care costs and trends / Thomas H. Rice -- 6. Containing health care costs / Thomas H. Rice and Gerald F. Kominski -- 7. Controlling pharmaceutical prices and expenditures / Stuart O. Schweitzer and William S. Comanor -- 8. Measuring outcomes and health-related quality of life / Patricia A. Ganz, Mark S. Litwin, Ron D. Hays and Robert M. Kaplan -- 9. Evaluating the quality of care / Elizabeth A. McGlynn -- 10. Public release of information on quality / Elizabeth A. McGlynn and John L. Adams -- 11. Health care information systems / Jeff Luck and Paul Fu, Jr. -- 12. Performance measurement of nursing care / Jack Needleman, Ellen T. Kurtzman and Kenneth W. Kizer -- 13. Long-term care and the elderly population / Steven P. Wallace, Emily K. Abel, Nadereh Pourat and Linda Delp -- 14. AIDS in the twenty-first century : challenges for health services and public health / David S. Zingmond and William E. Cunningham -- 15. Health reform for children and families / Moira Inkelas, Neal Halfon, David Lee Wood and Mark A. Schuster -- 16. Mental health services and policy issues / Susan L. Ettner and Janet C. Link -- 17. Women's health : key issues in access to health insurance coverage and to services among nonelderly women / Roberta Wyn and Beatriz M. Solfs -- 18. Homeless persons / Lisa Arangua and Lillian Gelberg -- 19. Managed care and the growth of competition / Gerald F. Kominski and Glenn A. Melnick -- 20. Medicare reform / Gerald F. Kominski, Jeanne T. Black and Thomas H. Rice -- 21. Public health and personal health services / Lester Breslow and Jonathan E. Fielding -- 22. The continuing issue of medical malpractice liability / Ruth Roemer -- 23. Ethical issues in public health and health services / Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau and Ruth Roemer.
ISBN
  • 9780787985240 (cloth)
  • 0787985244 (cloth)
LCCN
  • 2006032155
  • 9780787985240
OCLC
  • ocm71798128
  • SCSB-5313657
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries