Main description:

The third edition of Changing the U.S. Health Care System is a thoroughly revised and updated compendium of the most current thought on three key components of health care policy-improving access, ensuring quality, and controlling costs. Written by a panel of health care policy experts, this third edition highlights the most recent research relevant to health policy and management issues. New chapters address topics such as the disparities in health and in health care, information systems, and performance in the area of nursing. Revisions to chapters from the previous edition emphasize the most recent developments in the field.

Contents:

Figures and Tables. Foreword (Abdelmonem A. Afifi, Linda Rosenstock). The Editors. The Authors. Introduction and Overview (Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski). Acknowledgments. PART ONE: ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE. 1. Improving Access to Care in America: Individual and Contextual Indicators (Ronald M. Andersen, Pamela L. Davidson). 2. Ethnic Disparities in Health Status (Antronette K. Yancey, Roshan Bastani, Beth A. Glenn). 3. Disparities in Health Care (Leo S. Morales, Alexander N. Ortega). 4. Public Policies to Extend Health Care Coverage (E. Richard Brown, with Shana Alex Lavarreda). PART TWO: COSTS OF HEALTH CARE. 5. Measuring Health Care Costs and Trends (Thomas H. Rice). 6. Containing Health Care Costs (Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski). 7. Controlling Pharmaceutical Prices and Expenditures (Stuart O. Schweitzer, William S. Comanor). PART THREE: QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE. 8. Measuring Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life (Patricia A. Ganz, Mark S. Litwin, Ron D. Hays, Robert M. Kaplan). 9. Evaluating the Quality of Care (Elizabeth A. McGlynn). 10. Public Release of Information on Quality (Elizabeth A. McGlynn, John L. Adams). 11. Health Care Information Systems (Jeff Luck, Paul Fu Jr.). 12. Performance Measurement of Nursing Care (Jack Needleman, Ellen T. Kurtzman, Kenneth W. Kizer). PART FOUR: SPECIAL POPULATIONS. 13. Long-Term Care and the Elderly Population (Steven P. Wallace, Emily K. Abel, Nadereh Pourat, Linda Delp). 14. AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for Health Services and Public Health (David S. Zingmond, William E. Cunningham). 15. Health Reform for Children and Families (Moira Inkelas, Neal Halfon, David Lee Wood, Mark A. Schuster). 16. Mental Health Services and Policy Issues (Susan L. Ettner, Janet C. Link). 17. Women's Health: Key Issues in Access to Health Insurance Coverage and to Services Among Nonelderly Women (Roberta Wyn, Beatriz M. Solis). 18. Homeless Persons (Lisa Arangua, Lillian Gelberg). PART FIVE: DIRECTIONS FOR CHANGE. 19. Managed Care and the Growth of Competition (Gerald F. Kominski, Glenn A. Melnick). 20. Medicare Reform (Gerald F. Kominski, Jeanne T. Black, Thomas H. Rice). 21. Public Health and Personal Health Services (Lester Breslow, Jonathan E. Fielding). 22. The Continuing Issue of Medical Malpractice Liability (Ruth Roemer). 23. Ethical Issues in Public Health and Health Services (Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, Ruth Roemer). Index.