Announcing Health Care in the United States: Organization, Management, and Policy, by Howard P Greenwald (ISBN: 978-0-7879-9547-8, Hardcover, 400 pages April 2010)
Health Care in the United States combines an explanation of the basic concepts in population health with a comprehensive introduction to health services delivery and organizations in the United States. The author, an expert on health care policy and delivery, shows how the U.S. health services system is organized, managed, financed, and evaluated. Filled with numerous examples and tables, this important resource illustrates key concepts, trends, and features of the system. This text clarifies the complexities of public health, health care services, and health organization/system finance, and explains how the various components fit together. Also covered are origins and potential impacts of recent health reform legislation, ongoing dilemmas that face the health care system, and innovations in financing and delivery such as cost sharing, HMO enrollment, and advances in health care technology.
This vital resource is written for students and professionals in the fields of public health and health services, as well as medical sociology, medical anthropology, social work, public policy, and political science.
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