04472nam 22006734a 450 991045186140332120200520144314.01-283-59194-497866139043930-8135-4109-310.36019/9780813541099(CKB)1000000000466580(EBL)977926(OCoLC)806204987(SSID)ssj0000223288(PQKBManifestationID)11199076(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223288(PQKBWorkID)10182084(PQKB)11405734(MiAaPQ)EBC977926(OCoLC)228143509(MdBmJHUP)muse21389(DE-B1597)529350(DE-B1597)9780813541099(Au-PeEL)EBL977926(CaPaEBR)ebr10146780(CaONFJC)MIL390439(OCoLC)1035673113(EXLCZ)99100000000046658020040715d2004 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrPolicy challenges in modern health care[electronic resource] /edited by David Mechanic ... [et al.]New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20041 online resource (290 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8135-3577-8 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.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.Health care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its .6 trillion annual expenditures involve a host of competing interests. While arguably the nation offers among the most technologically advanced medical care in the world, the American system consistently under performs relative to its resources. Gaps in financing and service delivery pose major barriers to improving health, reducing disparities, achieving universal insurance coverage, enhancing quality, controlling costs, and meeting the needs of patients and families. Bringing together twenty-five of the nation’s leading experts in health care policy and public health, this book provides a much-needed perspective on how our health care system evolved, why we face the challenges that we do, and why reform is so difficult to achieve. The essays tackle tough issues including: socioeconomic disadvantage, tobacco, obesity, gun violence, insurance gaps, the rationing of services, the power of special interests, medical errors, and the nursing shortage. Linking the nation’s health problems to larger political, cultural, and philosophical contexts, Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care offers a compelling look at where we stand and where we need to be headed. Medical policyUnited StatesHealth care reformUnited StatesHealth services accessibilityUnited StatesElectronic books.Medical policyHealth care reformHealth services accessibility362.1/0973Mechanic David1936-882400MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910451861403321Policy challenges in modern health care2485367UNINA