Health policy: crisis and reform in the U.S. health care delivery system

Ch. 1. Health Status of the Population and Vulnerable Groups

Actual Causes of Death in the United States / J. Michael McGinnis and William H. Foege

Role of Socioeconomic Status Gradients in Explaining Differences in U.S. Adolescents' Health / Elizabeth Goodman

Role of Race/Ethnicity and Social Class in Minority Health Status / Herbert W. Nickens

Socioeconomic Inequalities in Women's Health / Nancy E. Moss

Who Are "the Homeless"? Reconsidering the Stability and Composition of the Homeless Population / Jo C. Phelan and Bruce G. Link

Mind Matters: The Importance of Mental Disorders in Public Health's 21st Century Mission / Richard Neugebauer

Ch. 2. Access to Care

Uninsured and their Health: Micro-Level Issues / Charlene Harrington and David N. Pellow

Going Bare: Trends in Health Insurance Coverage, 1989 Through 1996 / Olveen Carrasquillo, David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler / [et al.]

Health Insurance Coverage After Welfare / Bowen Garrett and John Holaban

Changing Landscape of Health Care Financing and Delivery: How Are Rural Communities and Providers Responding? / Keith J. Mueller, Andy Coburn and Sam Cordes / [et al.]

Older Women's Health and Access to Care / Dorothy P. Rice

Ch. 3. Aging and Long-Term Care

Critical Perspectives on Health and Aging / Carroll L. Estes and Karen W. Linkins

Uncertain Future of Home Care / Carroll L. Estes

Regulation and Enforcement of Federal Nursing Home Standards, 1991-1997 / Charlene Harrington and Helen Carrillo

Ch. 4. Organizational Change

Mergers and Acquisitions - Who Benefits? Who Loses? / Jerome P. Kassirer

Medical-Industrial Complex / Carroll L. Estes, Charlene Harrington and David N. Pellow

Changing U.S. Health Care System: Challenges for Responsible Public Policy / Marsha Gold

Hospital Organization and Outcomes / Linda H. Aiken, Douglas M. Sloane and Julie Sochalski

Ch. 5. Labor Issues

Hidden Health Care Workforce: Executive Summary / California Twenty-First Century Workforce Project

Safe Staffing Law Puts California Nurses in the Spotlight / Charles Idelson

Medical Care Employment in the United States, 1968 to 1993: The Importance of Health Sector Jobs for African Americans and Women / David U. Himmelstein, James P. Lewontin and Steffie Woolhandler

Slow Growth in the United States of the Number of Minorities in the RN Workforce / Peter I. Buerhaus and David Auerbach

Health Care Reform: Its Effects on Nurses / Patricia Corey-Lisle, Anita J. Tarzian and Marlene Z. Cohen / [et al.]

Ch. 6. Quality of Care

To Err is Human: Building a Safer Health System: Executive Summary / Linda T. Kohn, Janet M. Corrigan and Molla S. Donaldson

Nurse Staffing Levels and Adverse Events Following Surgery in U.S. Hospitals / Christine Kovner and Peter J. Gergen

Quality of Care in Investor-Owned vs. Not-for-Profit HMOs / David U. Himmelstein, Steffie Woothandler and Ida Hellander / [et al.]

Experts Recommend Minimum Nurse Staffing Standards for Nursing Facilities in the United States / Charlene Harrington, Christine Kovner and Mathy Mezey / [et al.]

Ch. 7. Financing Health Care

When Money is the Mission: The High Costs of Investor-Owned Care / Steffie Woolhandler and David U. Himmelstein

Health Spending in 1998: Signals of Change / Katharine Levit, Cathy Cowan and Helen Lazenbry / [et al.]

Economic Analysis in Health Care / Wendy Max

Ch. 8. Public Financing

Access to Care: How Much Difference Does Medicaid Make? / Marc L. Berk and Claudia L. Schur

Rebuilding Medicare for the 21st Century: A Challenge for the Medicare Commission and Congress / Thomas Bodenheimer, Kevin Grumbach and Bruce Lee Livingston / [et al.]

Difference Different Approaches Make: Comparing Proposals to Expand Health Insurance / Judith Feder, Cori Uccello and Ellen O'Brien

Ch. 9. Private Insurance and Managed Care

Practice and Ethics of Risk-Related Health Insurance / Donald W. Light

Demistifying Policy Jargon: ERISA / Martha Corona and Carole P. Jennings

Health Care: Organizational Change: Implications for Access to Care and Its Measurement / Robert H. Miller

New Dominance of Managed Care: Insurance Trends in the 1990s / Gain A. Jensen, Michael A. Morrisey and Shannon Gaffney / [et al.]

Ch. 10. Health Politics and Political Action

Health Policy Through the Looking Glass / Lester E. Block

Primer on Policy: The Legislative Process at the Federal Level / Sara Hart and Nadine Jackson

Can Meaningful Health Policy Be Developed in a Political System? / Catherine J. Dodd

Nurse, Interrupted: The Other Health Care Crisis / Suzanne Gordon

Why Congress Did Not Enact Health Care Reform / Vicente Navarro

National Health Insurance in the United States: A Drama in Too Many Acts / Milton Terris

Ch. 11. International Health Systems

What Is Right About the Canadian Health Care System? / Robert Evans and Noralou P. Roos

Health Spending, Access, and Outcomes: Trends in Industrialized Countries / Gerard F. Anderson and Jean-Pierre Poullier

Compettition, Cooperation, or Control? Tales from the British National Health Service / Julian Le Grand

Global Burden of Mental Disorders / T. Bedirhan Ustun

Ch. 12. Health Reform for the Future

Fostering Justice-Based Health Care System / Donald W. Light

National Health Program for the United States: A Physicians' Proposal / David U. Himmelstein and Steffie Woolhandler / Writing Committee of the Working Group on Program Design, Physicians for a National Health Program

Health and Equity in the World in the Era of "Globalization" / Vicente Navarro.