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9780826173034_WEB.pdf -- Cover -- Half Title: Health Care Delivery in the United States -- Author Bio -- Book Title: Health Care Delivery in the United States -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Features -- Contributors -- Instructor Resources -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Organization of This Book -- Part 1: Health Policy -- Chapter 1: The Challenge of Health Care Delivery and Health Policy -- INTRODUCTION -- THE IMPORTANCE OF GOOD HEALTH TO AMERICAN LIFE -- DEFINING CHARACTERISTICS OF THE U.S. HEALTH SYSTEM -- MAJOR ISSUES AND CONCERNS -- KEY STAKEHOLDERS INFLUENCING THE HEALTH SYSTEM -- ORGANIZATION OF THIS BOOK -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCE -- Chapte 2: Organization of Care -- INTRODUCTION -- DESCRIPTION OF THE CURRENT CARE DELIVERY SYSTEM -- HEALTH SYSTEM PERFORMANCE -- INNOVATIVE APPROACHES TO IMPROVING CARE DELIVERY -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 3:Policy and the Politics of Health Care: Policy Choices in a Divided Political Environment -- INTRODUCTION -- HEALTH CARE INFRASTRUCTURE AND SPENDING: MANY DOLLARS, TO WHAT EFFECT? -- WHO PAYS? THE POLITICS OF MEDICARE, MEDICAID, AND MUCH MORE -- THE POLITICS OF PROVIDING EQUITABLE HEALTH SERVICES -- HOW PERSONAL HEALTH DECISIONS BECOME PUBLIC: THE CASE OF OBESITY -- CONCLUSION: BETTER NATIONAL HEALTH AHEAD? -- REFERENCES -- Part 2: Keeping Americans Healthy -- Chapter 4: Population Health -- INTRODUCTION -- THE POPULATION HEALTH MODEL -- THE MEDICAL MODEL -- COMPARING THE MEDICAL AND POPULATION HEALTH MODELS -- THE INFLUENCE OF SOCIAL DETERMINANTS ON HEALTH EQUITY -- LEADING DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH: WEIGHTING THE DIFFERENT DOMAINS -- HEALTH POLICY AND RETURNS ON INVESTMENT -- CONCLUSION -- REFERENCES -- Chapter 5: Public Health Systems and Their Role in Society -- OVERVIEW OF A COMPLEX INFRASTRUCTURE -- PUBLIC HEALTH REQUIRES A COLLECTIVE RESPONSE FROM SOCIETY.

The results of the reforms of educational finance systems in early states can act as guides to the design of new finance systems in other states. A case study of recent experiences in NJ clarifies the role that policy analysis can play in aiding the school finance reform process. The results of the NJ reform suggest that the policy analyst must understand the behavioral responses of school districts to new aid & must take into account likely changes in the underlying economic conditions of local areas to accurately assess the impacts of alternative finance proposals. 3 Tables, 23 References. HA.

This comprehensive resource illuminates the past, present, and future of generalist medicine. Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy contains new contributions from preeminent authorities and a selection of groundbreaking articles and reports from the past forty years. Generalist Medicine and U.S. Health Policy covers a broad range of topics that · Examines the current challenges of primary care and generalist medicine · Offers a chronological history of the growth of generalist medicine since the 1950s · Reviews the models of care on which generalist medicine is based · Analyzes the g

Since 1972, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation's largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. To further its mission of improving the health and health care of all Americans, the Foundation strives to foster innovation, develop ideas, disseminate information, and enable committed people to devote their energies to improving the nation's well-being. As part of the Foundation's efforts to inform the public, To Improve Health and Health Care, the tenth volume in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology series, provides an in-depth look into the programs it funds. Wr

Health care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its 1.6 trillion annual expenditures involve a host of competing interests. While arguably the nation offers among the most technologically advanced medical care in the world, the American system consistently under performs relative to its resources. Gaps in financing and service delivery pose major barriers to improving health, reducing disparities, achieving universal insurance coverage, enhancing quality, controlling costs, and meeting the needs of patients and families. Bringing together twenty-five

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- Introduction -- CHAPTER 1. Morality, Politics, and Health Policy -- CHAPTER 2. Cross Pressures -- CHAPTER 3. The Employer-Based Health Insurance System -- CHAPTER 4. Entrepreneurial Challenges to Integrated Health Care -- CHAPTER 5. Fundamental Sources of Health Inequalities -- CHAPTER 6. A Public Health Approach to Firearms Policy -- CHAPTER 7. Tobacco Policy in the United States -- CHAPTER 8. Patterns and Causes of Disparities in Health -- CHAPTER 9. Addressing Racial Inequality in Health Care -- CHAPTER 10. Still Demanding Medical Excellence -- CHAPTER 11. Preventing Medical Errors -- CHAPTER 12. Improving Quality through Nursing -- CHAPTER 13. Improving Medicare for Beneficiaries with Disabilities -- CHAPTER 14. Specialization, Specialty Organizations, and the Quality of Health Care -- CHAPTER 15. Integrating People with Mental Illness into Health Insurance and Social Services -- CHAPTER 16. Accountability for Reasonable Limits to Care -- CONTRIBUTORS -- NAME INDEX -- SUBJECT INDEX