Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States: 8th EditionAnthony R. Kovner, PhD, James Knickman Springer Publishing Company, 2005 M06 22 - 753 pages Designated a Doody's Core Title!/span Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award! How do we understand and also assess the health care of America? Where is health care provided? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the population, the cost of care, and access to care? Health Care Delivery in the United States, 8th Edition discusses these and other core issues in the field. Under the editorship of Dr. Kovner and with the addition of Dr. James Knickman, Senior VP of Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, leading thinkers and practitioners in the field examine how medical knowledge creates new healthcare services. Emerging and recurrent issues from wide perspectives of health policy and public health are also discussed. With an easy to understand format and a focus on the major core challenges of the delivery of health care, this is the textbook of choice for course work in health care, the handbook for administrators and policy makers, and the standard for in-service training programs. Instructor's Guide Now Available Online! An Instructor's Manual for this textbook is available for those professors who have adopted Health Care Delivery in the United States, Eighth Edition and can verify a bookstore order of 7 or more copies. Please email our Marketing Department at marketing@springerpub.com if you have adopted this text as you will need a password to download the guide. Please provide the name and telephone number of the bookstore that ordered the textbooks. A print version of the Instructor's Manual is also available. |
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... example , the majority of people suffering from high blood pressure are unaware that they have the condition , and the majority of peo- ple coping with depression do not receive the types of medicines known to be effective . Yet , the ...
... example , how should basic health care and adequate quality be defined ? We could define basic health care as what is covered by a typical employer's benefit plan , or in a typical plan for government employees . But there is much ...
... example , who does not have access to basic health care or has uneven quality of care , and what are the consequences for those involved , and for the rest of us paying for their subsequent care ? Third , we need an acceptable plan to ...
... examples of how numbers are and can be used to better understand the health care delivery system , those it serves ... example of how public health offi- cials have attempted to maximize data collection while minimiz- ing 12 PERSPECTIVES.
... example , physician - patient encounters can be reported in terms of how many visits the average patient makes to the physician each year . The same set of events can be reported in terms of how many patient visits the average physician ...
Contents
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The Role of Government in US Health Care | 130 |
A Comparative Analysis of Health Systems Among Wealthy Nations | 162 |
Acute Care | 212 |
Chronic Care | 248 |
Information Management | 462 |
Governance Management and Accountability | 508 |
The Complexity of Health Care Quality | 536 |
Access to Care | 584 |
Cost Containment | 624 |
Futures in Health Care | 658 |
Glossary | 686 |
A Guide to Sources of Data | 702 |
LongTerm Care | 274 |
HealthRelated Behavior | 324 |
Pharmaceuticals and Medical Devices | 372 |
The Health Care Workforce | 416 |
A Listing of Useful Health Care Web Sites | 716 |
Index | 728 |
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