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Health policy: crisis and reform in the U.S. health care delivery system
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Jones and Bartlett Publishers
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c2001
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English
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From the Book - 3rd ed.
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.
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