Policy challenges in modern health care
By: edited by David Mechanic ... [et al.].
Contributors: Mechanic, David, 1936-
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Number of pages: 276
Subjects: Medical policy -- United States; Health care reform -- United States; Health services accessibility -- United States
Description: Twenty-five of the nation's leading experts in health care policy and public health provide a much-needed perspective on how our health care system evolved, why we face the challenges we do, and why reform is so difficult to achieve. Address issues such as socioeconomic disadvantage, obesity, tobacco policy, gun violence, insurance gaps, the rationing of services, medical errors, the nursing shortage, and the pervasive influence of special interests.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Morality, politics, and health policy / James A. Morone; title: Cross pressures / Theda Skocpol and Patricia Seliger Keenan; title: The employer-based health insurance system / Sherry A. Glied; title: Entrepreneurial challenges to integrated health care / James C. Robinson; title: Fundamental sources of health inequalities / Bruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan; title: A public health approach to firearms policy / David Hemenway; title: Tobacco policy in the United States / Kenneth E. Warner; title: Patterns and causes of disparities in health / David R. Williams; title: Addressing racial inequality in health care / Sara Rosenbaum and Joel Teitelbaum; title: Still demanding medical excellence / Michael L. Millenson; title: Preventing medical errors / Lucian L. Leap; title: Improving quality through nursing / Linda H. Aiken; title: Improving medicare for beneficiaries with disabilities / Lisa I. Iezzoni; title: Specialization, specialty organizations, and the quality of health care / Rosemary A. Stevens; title: Integrating people with mental illness into health insurance and social services / Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire; title: Accountability for reasonable limits to care / Norman Daniels.