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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... important undertaking . It is not enough for a nation to have excellent medical know - how . In addition , we need ... important , every American should have access to the health care services they need . The current edition of this book ...
... important data cat- egories are regularly ( or ever ) collected or reported . Most routinely used population and health data come from data collection systems that monitor conditions of public health importance as mandated by federal ...
... important information , some jurisdic- tions have added items to the death certificate related to the decedent's history of smoking and alcohol use . However , these efforts have had limited success because this information is diffi ...
... important to include measures of health status when examining utilization rates since older , sicker patients would obviously use more services than healthier patients . Provider - perspective utilization data can tell us , for example ...
... important to keep in mind , however , that there are no hard and fast rules for data presentation , and it is always crucial to be aware of the size of the denominator . Health service utilization rates constitute a special group of ...
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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