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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... physicians ; generalist physicians have dif- ferent priorities than do specialists ; and the interests of insurers , educators , consultants , researchers , and unions and trade organi- zations ( vendors and suppliers in Table 1.1 ) ...
... physician to certify that a patient is dead and to determine the underlying cause of death . However , physicians have varying diagnostic styles , perspectives , and abilities and may have little or no first hand knowledge of the ...
... physicians fail to report certain diseases , even when legally required to do so . There are many reasons why physicians fail to report , including the time it takes to complete the required paper- work . Some physicians will not report ...
... physicians engaged primarily in teach- ing , research , and administration . In the early 1990s , these data were being reported primarily by physician specialty . In the NAMCS , morbidity data are collected from both the patient's and ...
... physicians ( 485 million ) . Ambulatory Services As we have noted , the NHIS provides patient - perspective data for the utilization of ambulatory services . According to the NHIS , in 1996 there were about 5.9 physician contacts per ...
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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