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xiv, 497 pages : 26 cm This book describes the changing roles and functions of health care in the United States, as well as the technical, economic, political, and social forces responsible for those changes. The authors provide an exceptionally clear overview of the many factors that determine why, how, where, and at what cost health care is delivered in the United States. It highlights the momentous readjustments occurring in the market-driven system resulting from the managed care backlash, the implementation of the Balance Budget Act of 1997, and its amendments and contemporary policy directions Includes bibliographical references and index Overview of health care: a population persepctive -- Benchmark developments in U.S. health care -- Hospitals: Origin, organization and performance -- Ambulatory care -- Medical education and the changing practice of medicine -- Health care personnel -- Financing health care -- Managed care -- Long-term care -- Mental health services -- Public health and the role of government in health care -- Research: How health care advances -- The future of health care

Author

Harry A. Sultz, Kristina M. Young

Publisher

Jones & Bartlett Publishers

Published

2004

Language

EN

ISBN

9780763725716

Subjects

Medical, Management, Nursing

Rating

4.2 / 5 (145 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14