Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services, Policy, and Management

A Roadmap of the U.S. Health System

This comprehensive review provides new insights into the nation's health care system, and covers the full spectrum of health care services. It identifies up-to-the-minute trAnds and analyzes options for future policymaking in the wake of diminishing public confidence in past health reform initiatives.

The authors--all recognized as top researchers in the field--draw on their own investigations to address timely topics such as AIDS, women's health, long-term care, and prevention. In addition, they examine important issues including ethics, cost, quality, and access, and tackle controversial subjects such as malpractice, and regulated versus competitive systems.

RONALD M. ANDERSEN is Wasserman professor and chair of the Department of Health Services, School of Public Health at U.C.L.A. THOMAS H. RICE is professor of health services at U.C.L.A. GERALD F. KOMINSKI is assistant professor of health services at U.C.L.A.