Health policy : crisis and reform in the U.S. health care delivery system /
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Sudbury, Mass. :
Jones and Bartlett Publishers,
[2004]
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Table of Contents:
- pt. I. Health Policy
- Ch. 1. Health Politics and Political Action
- What It Is and How It Works / Lester E. Block
- Primer on Policy: The Legislative Process at the Federal Level / Sara Hart and Nadine Jackson
- Making the Political Process Work / Catherine J. Dodd
- Myths as Barriers to Health Care Reform in the United States / John P. Geyman
- Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform / Vincente Navarro
- pt. II. Health Status and Access to Care
- Ch. 2. Health Status of the Population and Vulnerable Groups
- Is U.S. Health Really the Best in the World? / Barbara Starfield
- Case for More Active Policy Attention to Health Promotion / J. Michael McGinnis, Pamela Williams-Russo and James R. Knickman
- Women s Health Issues Across the Life Span / Roberta Wyn and and Beatriz Solis
- Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Health: Findings From Community Studies / David R. Williams, Harold W. Neighbors and James S. Jackson
- Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care / Institute of Medicine
- Incorporating Socioeconomic Factors into U.S. Health Policy: Addressing the Barriers / S. Leonard Syme, Bonnie Lefkowitz and Barbara Kivimae Krimgold
- Ch. 3. Access to Care
- Uninsured and Their Access to Health Care / Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured
- Millions of Mothers Lack Health Insurance Coverage in the United States / Jocelyn Guyer, Mathew Broaddus and Annie Dude
- Care Without Coverage: Too Little, Too Late / Institute of Medicine
- Adequacy of Treatment for Serious Mental Illness in the United States / Philip S. Wang, Olga Demler and Ronald C. Kessler
- Full Parity: Steps Toward Treatment Equity for Mental and Addictive Disorders / Kevin D. Hennessy and Howard H. Goldman
- Ch. 4. Aging and Long-Term Care
- 2030 Problem: Caring for Aging Baby Boomers / James R. Knickman and Emily K. Snell
- Political Economy of Community-Based Long-Term Care / Marty Lynch and Carroll L. Estes
- Improving Medicare to Respond to Chronic Disease Issues / Marty Lynch, Carroll L. Estes and Mauro Hernandez
- Providing Care at the End of Life: Do Medicare Rules Impede Good Care? / Haiden A. Huskamp, Melinda Beeuwkes Buntin, Virginia Wang and Joseph P. Newhouse
- Informalization of Long-Term Caregiving: A Gender Lens / Carroll L. Estes and Donna M. Zulman
- pt. III. Health Care Delivery System Issues
- Ch. 5. Organizational Change
- Exploding the Merger Myth in U.S. Health Care / Martin Kitchener
- Hospital Staffing, Organization, and Quality of Care: Cross-National Findings / Linda H. Aiken, Sean P. Clarke and Douglas M. Sloane
- Changes in Hospital Competitive Strategy: A New Medical Arms Race? / Kelly J. Devers, Linda R. Brewster and Lawrence P. Casalino
- Public Health Infrastructure: Rebuild or Redesign? / Nicole Lurie
- Primary Care: The Next Renaissance / Jonathan Showstack, Nicole Lurie, Eric B. Larson, Arlyss Anderson Rothman and Susan Hassmiller
- Ch. 6. Labor Issues
- Fighting Hand to Hand Over Physician Workforce Policy / Kevin Grumbach
- Nursing Shortage Redux: Turning the Corner on an Enduring Problem / Julie Sochalski
- Case for Diversity in the Health Care Workforce / Jordan J. Cohen, Barbara A. Gabriel and Charles Terrell
- Who Cares for Older Adults? Workforce Implications of an Aging Society / Christine Tassone Kovner, Mathy Mezey and Charlene Harrington
- Ch. 7. Quality of Care
- Nurse Staffing and Quality of Care in Hospitals in the United States / Jack Needleman, Peter Buerhaus, Soeren Mattke, Maureen Stewart and Katya Zelevinsky
- Nursing Facility Staffing Policy: A Case for Political Change / Charlene Harrington
- Health Plan Quality Data: The Importance of Public Reporting /
- Joseph W. Thompson, Sathiska D. Pinidiya, Kevin W. Ryan, Elizabeth D. McKinley, Shannon Alston, James E. Bost, Jessica Briefer French and Pippa Simpson
- Does Publicizing Hospital Performance Stimulate Quality Improvement Efforts? / Judith H. Hibbard, Jean Stockard and Martin Tusler
- pt. IV. Economics of Health Care
- Ch. 8. Financing Health Care
- Health Spending Projections for 2001-2011: The Latest Outlook / Stephen Heffler, Sheila Smith, Greg Won, M. Kent Clemens, Sean Keehan and Mark Zezza
- Economic Analysis in Health Care / Wendy Max
- It's the Prices, Stupid: Why the United States Is So Different from Other Countries / Gerard F. Anderson, Uwe E. Reinhardt, Peter S. Hussey and Varduhi Petrosyan
- Effects of Cost Sharing on Care Seeking and Health Status: Results from the Medical Outcomes Study / Mitchell D. Wong, Ronald Anderson, Cathy D. Sherbourne, Ron D. Hays and Martin F. Shapiro
- Ch. 9. Public Financing
- Medicaid: Lessons from a Decade / Diane Rowland and James R. Tallon, Jr.
- Medicaid for Children: Federal Mandates, Welfare Reform, and Policy Backsliding / Karl Kronebusch
- Medicare at a Glance / The Kaiser Family Foundation
- Comparing Medicare and Private Insurers: Growth Rates in Spending over Three Decades / Christina Boccuti and Marilyn Moon
- Affordable Prescriptions for the Elderly / Thomas S. Bodenheimer
- Women's Realities and Retirement Consequences / Older Women's League
- Women's Stake in the Social Security Debate / Older Women's League
- Ch. 10. Private Insurance and Managed Care
- Job-Based Health Insurance in 2001: Inflation hits Double Digits, Managed Care Retreats / Jon Gabel, Larry Levitt, Jeremy Pickreign, Heidi Whitmore, Erin Holve, Diane Rowland, Kelley Dhont and Samantha Hawkins
- HMO Plan Performance Update: An Analysis of the Literature, 1997-2001 / Robert H. Miller and Harold S. Luft
- Does Investor Ownership of Nursing Homes Compromise the Quality of Care? / Charlene Harrington, Steffie Woolhandler, Joseph Mullan, Helen Carillo and David U. Himmelstein
- Taking Care of Business: HMOs That Spend More on Administration Deliver Lower-Quality Care / David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler
- pt. V. Reforming the U.S. Health Care System
- Ch. 11. International Health Systems
- Health Care Reform: Lessons from Canada / Raisa Berlin Deber
- Universal Health Care: Lessons from the British Experience / Donald W. Light
- Insights from Health Care in Germany / Christa Altenstetter
- Comparing Health Systems in Four Countries: Lessons for the United States / Lawrence D. Brown
- Comparison of Health Care System Views and Experiences in Five Nations, 2001 / Cathy Schoen, Robert J. Blendon, Catherine M. DesRoches and Robin Osborn
- Health and Equity in the World in the Era of "Globalization" / Vincente Navarro
- Ch. 12.
- Health Reform for the Future
- Policy Without Politics: The Limits of Social Engineering / Vincente Navarro
- Paying for National Health Insurance
- And Not Getting It / Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein
- Movement for Universal Health Insurance: Finding Common Ground / Thomas Bodenheimer
- Fresh Approach to Health Care in the United States: Improved and Expanded Medicare for All / John Conyers
- Labor Rekindles Reform / Andrew L. Stern
- National Health Insurance or Incremental Reform: Aim High, or at Our Feet? / David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler.