Changing the U.S. health care system
Subtitle: key issues in health services, policy, and management
By: [edited by] Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski ; foreword by Abdelmonem A. Afifi.
Contributors: Andersen, Ronald.; Rice, Thomas H.; Kominski, Gerald F.
Edition: 2nd ed.
Series: The Jossey-Bass health series
Publisher: Jossey-Bass
Published: 2001
Place of publication: San Francisco
Language: eng
Number of pages: 553
Subjects: Health care reform -- United States; Medical policy -- United States; Medical care -- United States
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Access to health care. Improving access to care in America: individual and contextual indicators; title: Public policies to extend health care coverage; title: Costs of health care. Measuring health care costs and trends; title: Containing health care costs; title: Pharmaceutical prices and expenditures.  Quality of health care. Measuring outcomes and health-related quality of life; title: Evaluating the quality of care; title: Public release of information on quality.   Special populations. Long-term care and the elderly population; title: AIDS in the twenty-first century: challenges for health services and public health; title: Health reform for children and families; title: Mental health services and policy issues; title: Women's health: key issues in access to insurance coverage and to services among nonelderly women; title: Homeless persons.  Directions for change. Managed care and the growth of competition; title: Medicare reform; title: The role of prevention; title: Public health and personal health services; title: The continuing issue of medical malpractice liability; title: Ethical issues in public health and health services.