Health Care USA - Softcover

Sultz, Harry

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0763749745 ISBN 13: 9780763749743

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2008

Synopsis

Health Care USA, Sixth Edition is an ideal text for introductory courses on the organization and delivery of U.S. health care for students in schools of public health, medicine, nursing, dentistry, health administration, and other health professions. It provides an introduction to the health care system and an overview of the professional, political, social, and economic forces that have shaped it and will continue to do so. The Sixth Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect the most recent changes of this growing and dynamic industry. Revisions include: Updated data on the size and cost of the U.S. health care system. New information on Managed Care Organizations, PPOs, and HMOs. New information on the variety of efforts of hospitals to reduce medical errors. Developments from the Freedom Commission on Mental Health initiative. A new discussion on the hospital competition with privately owned outpatient facilities. Updated Department of Labor estimates on health care personnel and the factors that influence demand and utilization. New data on the number of un- or under-insured Americans. A new discussion of government and private insurer cost savings initiatives through education and case management. A new discussion of the effect of the influx of Iraq War causalities on VA services. Updates on federal, state, and local public health initiatives in emergency preparedness.

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About the Author

Harry A. Sultz, DDS, MPH. is Professor Emeritus of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Dean Emeritus of its School of Health Related Professions. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Law. He has also served as Adjunct Professor, Health Systems Management, School of Management and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine. An epidemiologist, health care services planner, and researcher, he established and, for 26 years, directed the Health Services Research Program of Buffalo’s School of Medicine. His extensive research experience serves as background for the various editions of this book and for the courses that he teaches about health care and health policy.

Kristina M. Young, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the State University at Buffalo. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the University’s School of Law. She teaches graduate level courses in the organization of health care and in health policy. She is also president of Kristina M. Young and Associates, Inc., a management consultation and training group specializing in health care and human services organizations. Previously, she served as president of a corporate training and development organization; as executive vice president of a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the joint interests of a major teaching hospital and a health maintenance organization; and as the vice president for research and development for a teaching hospital system and executive director of its health education and research foundation.

About this edition

• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0763749745
• ISBN 13: 9780763749743
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 492