Changing the U.S. health care system : key issues in health services, policy, and management /
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| Imprint: | San Francisco : Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1996. |
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| Description: | xxv, 454 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2505360 |
Table of Contents:
- Figures and Tables
- Foreword
- The Editors
- The Authors
- Introduction and Overview
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1. Access to Health Care
- 1. Improving Access to Care in America: Individual and Contextual Indicators
- 2. Ethnic Disparities in Health Status
- 3. Disparities in Health Care
- 4. Public Policies to Extend Health Care Coverage
- Part 2. Costs of Health Care
- 5. Measuring Health Care Costs and Trends
- 6. Containing Health Care Costs
- 7. Controlling Pharmaceutical Prices and Expenditures
- Part 3. Quality of Health Care
- 8. Measuring Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life
- 9. Evaluating the Quality of Care
- 10. Public Release of Information on Quality
- 11. Health Care Information Systems
- 12. Performance Measurement of Nursing Care
- Part Four. Special Populations
- 13. Long-Term Care and the Elderly Population
- 14. AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for Health Services and Public Health
- 15. Health Reform for Children and Families
- 16. Mental Health Services and Policy Issues
- 17. Women's Health: Key Issues in Access to Health Insurance Coverage and to Services Among Nonelderly Women
- 18. Homeless Persons
- Part 5. Directions for Change
- 19. Managed Care and the Growth of Competition
- 20. Medicare Reform
- 21. Public Health and Personal Health Services
- 22. The Continuing Issue of Medical Malpractice Liability
- 23. Ethical Issues in Public Health and Health Services
- Index
