LEADER 04472nam 22006734a 450 001 9910451861403321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-283-59194-4 010 $a9786613904393 010 $a0-8135-4109-3 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813541099 035 $a(CKB)1000000000466580 035 $a(EBL)977926 035 $a(OCoLC)806204987 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000223288 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11199076 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000223288 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10182084 035 $a(PQKB)11405734 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC977926 035 $a(OCoLC)228143509 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse21389 035 $a(DE-B1597)529350 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813541099 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL977926 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10146780 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL390439 035 $a(OCoLC)1035673113 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000466580 100 $a20040715d2004 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 00$aPolicy challenges in modern health care$b[electronic resource] /$fedited by David Mechanic ... [et al.] 210 $aNew Brunswick, N.J. $cRutgers University Press$dc2004 215 $a1 online resource (290 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-3577-8 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $tMorality, politics, and health policy / James A. Morone --$tCross pressures /$rTheda Skocpol and Patricia Seliger Keenan --$tThe employer-based health insurance system /$rSherry A. Glied --$tEntrepreneurial challenges to integrated health care /$rJames C. Robinson --$tFundamental sources of health inequalities /$rBruce G. Link and Jo C. Phelan --$tA public health approach to firearms policy /$rDavid Hemenway --$tTobacco policy in the United States /$rKenneth E. Warner --$tPatterns and causes of disparities in health /$rDavid R. Williams --$tAddressing racial inequality in health care /$rSara Rosenbaum and Joel Teitelbaum --$tStill demanding medical excellence /$rMichael L. Millenson --$tPreventing medical errors /$rLucian L. Leap --$tImproving quality through nursing /$rLinda H. Aiken --$tImproving medicare for beneficiaries with disabilities /$rLisa I. Iezzoni --$tSpecialization, specialty organizations, and the quality of health care /$rRosemary A. Stevens --$tIntegrating people with mental illness into health insurance and social services /$rRichard G. Frank and Thomas G. McGuire --$tAccountability for reasonable limits to care /$rNorman Daniels. 330 $aHealth care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its $1.6 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. 606 $aMedical policy$zUnited States 606 $aHealth care reform$zUnited States 606 $aHealth services accessibility$zUnited States 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMedical policy 615 0$aHealth care reform 615 0$aHealth services accessibility 676 $a362.1/0973 701 $aMechanic$b David$f1936-$0882400 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910451861403321 996 $aPolicy challenges in modern health care$92485367 997 $aUNINA