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Record Nr.

UNINA9910809036703321

Titolo

Policy challenges in modern health care [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David Mechanic ... [et al.]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2004

ISBN

1-283-59194-4

9786613904393

0-8135-4109-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (290 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

MechanicDavid <1936->

Disciplina

362.1/0973

Soggetti

Medical policy - United States

Health care reform - United States

Health services accessibility - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

Morality, politics, and health policy / James A. Morone -- Cross pressures / Theda Skocpol and Patricia Seliger Keenan -- The employer-based health insurance system / Sherry A. Glied -- Entrepreneurial challenges to integrated health care / James C. Robinson -- Fundamental sources of health inequalities / Bruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan -- A public health approach to firearms policy / David Hemenway -- Tobacco policy in the United States / Kenneth E. Warner -- Patterns and causes of disparities in health / David R. Williams -- Addressing racial inequality in health care / Sara Rosenbaum and Joel Teitelbaum -- Still demanding medical excellence / Michael L. Millenson -- Preventing medical errors / Lucian L. Leap -- Improving quality through nursing / Linda H. Aiken -- Improving medicare for beneficiaries with disabilities / Lisa I. Iezzoni -- Specialization, specialty organizations, and the quality of health care / Rosemary A. Stevens -- Integrating people with mental illness into health insurance and social services / Richard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire -- Accountability for reasonable limits to care / Norman Daniels.

Sommario/riassunto

Health care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its