Health policy and nursing : crisis and reform in the U.S. health care delivery system /
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| Imprint: | Boston : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, c1994. |
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| Description: | xiv, 535 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1586212 |
Table of Contents:
- Pt. I. Economics of the U.S. Health Care Delivery System. Ch. 1. Financing Health Care. Why Health Economics? / Lanis L. Hicks and Keith E. Boles. National Health Expenditures / Katharine R. Levit, Helen C. Lazenby, Cathy A. Cowan and Suzanne W. Letsch. U.S. Health Expenditure Performance: An International Comparison and Data Update / George J. Schieber, Jean-Pierre Poullier and Leslie M. Greenwald. Health Spending Through 2030: Three Scenarios / Daniel R. Waldo, Sally T. Sonnefeld, Jeffrey A. Lemieux and David R. McKusick. Ch. 2. Health Care Market. The Medical-Industrial Complex / Carroll L. Estes, Charlene Harrington and Solomon Davis. What Market Values Are Doing to Medicine / Arnold S. Relman. The Deteriorating Administrative Efficiency of the U.S. Health Care System / Steve Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein. Ch. 3. Private Insurance and Managed Care. Halfway Competitive Markets and Ineffective Regulation: The American Health Care System / Stuart H. Altman and Marc A. Rodwin. The Practice and Ethics of Risk-Rated Health Insurance / Donald W. Light. Health Maintenance Organization Environments in the 1980s and Beyond / Ellen M. Morrison and Harold S. Luft. HMOs and Managed Care / Marsha R. Gold
- Pt. II. Structure of the U.S. Health Care Delivery System. Ch. 4. Hospitals. Hospital Trends / Kathy Hull / American Hospital Association. Medicare and the American Health Care System / Prospective Payment Assessment Commission. The Performance of For-Profit and Nonprofit Health Care Organizations / Bradford H. Gray. Ch. 5. Nursing Homes. The Nursing Home Industry: A Structural Analysis / Charlene Harrington. Factors Contributing to the Hospitalization of Nursing Home Residents / Jeanie S. Kayser-Jones, Carolyn L. Wiener and Joseph C. Barbaccia. Nursing Home Costs, Medicaid Rates, and Profits Under Alternative Medicaid Payment Systems / Robert E. Schlenker. Ch. 6. Home Health Care and Community-based Care. Quality, Access, and Costs: Public Policy and Home Health Care / Charlene Harrington. The Impact of DRGs on Community-based Service Providers: Implications for the Elderly / Juanita B. Wood and Carroll L. Estes. Home Care: Measuring Success / William G. Weissert. Ch. 7. Physician Labor Market. The Changing Character of the Medical Profession / John B. McKinlay. Professional Dominance or Proletarianization?: Neither / Vicente Navarro. How Many Physicians Can We Afford? / Kevin Grumbach and Philip R. Lee. Medicare Physicians Payment / Physician Payment Review Commission. Ch. 8. Nurse Labor Market. The Hospital Nursing Shortage: A Paradox of Increasing Supply and Increasing Vacancy Rates / Linda H. Aiken. Cost-effectiveness of Nursing Care Revisited: 1981-1990 / Claire M. Fagin. Uncovering the Hidden Work of Nursing / Zane Robinson Wolf. Federal Reimbursement of Advanced Practice Nurses' Services Empowers the Profession / Pamela C. Mittelstadt
- Pt. III. Outcomes of the U.S. Health Care Delivery. Ch. 9. Health Status and Access to Care. A Revised Look at the Number of Uninsured Americans / M. Eugene Moyer. Inequality and Access to Health Care / Karen Davis. Access to Medical Care for Black and White Americans: A Matter of Continuing Concern / Robert J. Blendon, Linda H. Aiken, Howard E. Freeman and Christopher R. Corey. Ch. 10. Women's Health. Towards a Women's Health Research Agenda / The Society for the Advancement of Women's Health Research. The Home as Workshop: Women as Amateur Nurses and Medical Care Providers / Nona Y. Glazer. Older Women in the Post-Reagan Era / Terry Arendell and Carroll L. Estes. Ch. 11. Quality of Care. Quality and Cost of Nursing Care: Is Anybody Out There Listening? / William L. Holzemer. Quality of Care Before and After Implementation of the DRG-based Prospective Payment System: A Summary of Effects / William H. Rogers, David Draper, Katherine L. Kahn, Emmett B. Keeler, Lisa V. Rubenstein, Jacqueline Kosecoff and Robert H. Brook. Unnecessary Surgery / Lucian L. Leape
- Pt. IV. Reforming the U.S. Health Care Delivery System. Ch. 12. National Health Care. Nursing's Agenda for Health Care Reform / American Nurses' Association. A National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal / David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler / Writing Committee of the Working Group on Program Design and Physicians for a National Health Care Program. A National Long-term Care Program for the United States: A Caring Vision / Charlene Harrington, Christine Cassel, Carroll L. Estes, Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein / Working Group on Long-term Care Program Design and Physicians for a National Health Program. The Clinton Health Care Plan / Bill Clinton.