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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... problems of uneven quality of care , fragmentation of services , high cost , and lack of access for millions of Americans remain virtually unresolved . The journey of understanding and changing the world's most complicated , expensive ...
... problems and issues associated with these characteristics ? 3. What are the reasons for these problems and issues ? 4. What are some suggestions to overcome the opposition of certain interest groups to national health insurance for all ...
... problems in the popu- lation . The infant mortality rate gives some indication of both gen- eral health levels and the availability of medical care . The distribu- tion of crude and disease - specific mortality and morbidity rates by ...
... problems and can be used to help design solutions to identified problems or unmet needs . Since not everyone who is in need of a specific service will utilize it , data - based utilization projections are essential for estimating costs ...
... problems . In most cases it is the responsibility of a physician to certify that a patient is dead and to determine ... problem , see " Estimates of Selected Comparability Ratios Based on Dual Coding of 1976 Death Certificates by the ...
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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