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Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care
Rutgers University Press, 2005 eISBN: 978-0-8135-8177-4 | Cloth: 978-0-8135-3577-7 | Paper: 978-0-8135-3578-4 Library of Congress Classification RA395.A3P588 2004 Dewey Decimal Classification 362.10973
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
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. See other books on: Health care reform | Health services accessibility | Hemenway, David | Medical policy | Skocpol, Theda See other titles from Rutgers University Press |
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Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care
ABOUT THIS BOOK | AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY | REVIEWS | TOC
Rutgers University Press, 2005
eISBN: 978-0-8135-8177-4
Cloth: 978-0-8135-3577-7
Paper: 978-0-8135-3578-4
eISBN: 978-0-8135-8177-4
Cloth: 978-0-8135-3577-7
Paper: 978-0-8135-3578-4
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 of the nation’s leading experts in health care policy and public health, this book provides a much-needed perspective on how our health care system evolved, why we face the challenges that we do, and why reform is so difficult to achieve. The essays tackle tough issues including: socioeconomic disadvantage, tobacco, obesity, gun violence, insurance gaps, the rationing of services, the power of special interests, medical errors, and the nursing shortage.
Linking the nation’s health problems to larger political, cultural, and philosophical contexts, Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care offers a compelling look at where we stand and where we need to be headed.
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