Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0826120873 ISBN 13: 9780826120878

Publisher: Springer Publishing Company, 2005

Synopsis

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!

How do we understand and also assess the health care of America? Where is health care provided? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the population, the cost of care, and access to care?

Health Care Delivery in the United States, 8th Edition discusses these and other core issues in the field. Under the editorship of Dr. Kovner and with the addition of Dr. James Knickman, Senior VP of Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, leading thinkers and practitioners in the field examine how medical knowledge creates new healthcare services. Emerging and recurrent issues from wide perspectives of health policy and public health are also discussed.

With an easy to understand format and a focus on the major core challenges of the delivery of health care, this is the textbook of choice for course work in health care, the handbook for administrators and policy makers, and the standard for in-service training programs.

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About this title

About the Author:

is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service at New York University, in New York City. He is trained in organizational behavior, health services management, and social and economic development. He received bachelor's and master's degrees from Cornell University, and his doctorate in public administration from the University of Pittsburgh. Dr. Kovner is an experienced health care manager, having served as CEO of a community hospital, senior health care consultant for a large union, manager of a group practice, of a nursing home, and of a large neighborhood health center. He is a board member of the Lutheran Health Care and of Health Plus, in Brooklyn, N.Y. He has carried out several funded research projects, most recently on Factors Associated with Use of Management Research in hospitals and health systems. He is author or editor of 9 books and 43 journal articles and 24 case studies. He has directed several national demonstration programs funded by major foundations. Dr. Kovner was the fourth recipient, in 1999, of the Gary L. Filerman prize for Educational leadership, from the Association of University Programs in Health Administration.

. Dr. Knickman received his B.A. from Fordham University and his Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Pennsylvania.

Review:

"It is not enough for a nation to have excellent medical know-how....we need to understand how to get services to people, as well as the social responsibilities and organizational challenges in delivering services. This book properly focuses attention on the challenges of the delivery of health care: how to achieve quality, efficiency, value, fairness, and universal access." -- from the foreword by Steven Schroeder, former President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley

About this edition

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Company
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 0826120873
• ISBN 13: 9780826120878
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 788
• Editor: Kovner PhD Anthony R., Knickman PhD James R.