| Description |
xlv, 693 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
Improving access to care in America: individual and contextual indicators / Ronald M. Andersen, Pamela L. Davidson -- Ethnic disparities in health status / Antronette K. Yancey, Roshan Bastani, Beth A. Glenn -- Disparities in health care / Leo S. Morales, Alexander N. Ortega -- Public policies to extend health care coverage / E. Richard Brown, with Shana Alex Lavarreda -- Measuring health care costs and trends / Thomas H. Rice -- Containing health care costs / Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski -- Controlling pharmaceutical prices and expenditures / Stuart O. Schweitzer, William S. Comanor -- Measuring outcomes and health-related quality of life / Patricia A. Ganz, Mark S. Litwin, Ron D. Hays, Robert M. Kaplan -- Evaluating the quality of care / Elizabeth A. McGlynn -- Public release of information on quality / Elizabeth A. McGlynn, John L. Adams -- Health care information systems / Jeff Luck, Paul Fu Jr -- Performance measurement of nursing care / Jack Needleman, Ellen T. Kurtzman, Kenneth W. Kizer -- Long-term care and the elderly population / Steven P. Wallace ... [et al.] -- AIDS in the twenty-first century: challenges for health services and public health / David S. Zingmond, William E. Cunningham -- Health reform for children and families / Moira Inkelas ... [et al.] -- Mental health services and policy issues / Susan L. Ettner, Janet C. Link -- Women's health: key issues in access to health insurance coverage and to services among nonelderly women / Roberta Wyn, Beatriz M. Solis -- Homeless persons / Lisa Arangua, Lillian Gelberg -- Managed care and the growth of competition / Gerald F. Kominski, Glenn A. Melnick -- Medicare reform / Gerald F. Kominski, Jeanne T. Black, Thomas H. Rice -- Public health and personal health services / Lester Breslow, Jonathan E. Fielding -- The continuing issue of medical malpractice liability / Ruth Roemer -- Ethical issues in public health and health services / Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, Ruth Roemer |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Health care reform -- United States.
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Medical policy -- United States.
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Medical care -- United States.
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Health Care Reform.
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Delivery of Health Care.
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Health Policy.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481 |
| Author |
Andersen, Ronald.
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Rice, Thomas H.
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Kominski, Gerald F.
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| LC no. |
2006032155 |
| ISBN |
9780787985240 (cloth) |
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0787985244 (cloth) |
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