Policy challenges in modern health care /
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| Imprint: | New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2005. |
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| Description: | ix, 276 p. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/5664856 |
Table of Contents:
- Preface / Alvin R. Tarlov
- Introduction / David Mechanic, Lynn B. Rogut, David C. Colby and James R. Knickman
- 1. Morality, politics, and health policy / James A. Morone
- 2. Cross pressures : the contemporary politics of health reform / Theda Skocpol and Patricia Seliger Keenan
- 3. The employer-based health insurance system : mistake or cornerstone? / Sherry A. Glied
- 4. Entrepreneurial challenges to integrated health care / James C. Robinson
- 5. Fundamental sources of health inequalities / Bruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan
- 6. A public health approach to firearms policy / David Hemenway
- 7. Tobacco policy in the United States : lessons for the obesity epidemic / Kenneth E. Warner
- 8. Patterns and causes of disparities in health / David R. Williams
- 9. Addressing racial inequality in health care / Sara Rosenbaum and Joel Teitelbaum
- 10. Still demanding medical excellence / Michael L. Millenson
- 11. Preventing medical errors / Lucian L. Leape
- 12. Improving quality through nursing / Linda H. Aiken
- 13. Improving medicare for beneficiaries with disabilities / Lisa I. Iezzoni
- 14. Specialization, specialty organizations, and the quality of health care / Rosemary A. Stevens
- 15. Integrating people with mental illness into health insurance and social services / Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire
- 16. Accountability for reasonable limits to care : can we meet the challenges? / Norman Daniels.
