Synopsis Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery (2010) is a Study book on health care that offers students with a detailed overview of America’s Health Care System. This Book by Kristina Young and Harry Sultz includes current advances in health care including The Response Of Public Health To Swine Flu And The Obama Administration’s Health Care Reform. The effect of recent recession on the hospital finances is also added to this Study book on health care. Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery (2010) also talks about new Projections and Data Trends on the country’s health care spending. With a futuristic perspective on USA’s health care system, this Book by Kristina Young and Harry Sultz acts as a guiding path on health care. Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery (2010) provides a clearly organized illustration of the difficult structures, relationships and processes of this industry.
| Key Details | | Author: | Harry A. Sultz, Kristina M. Young | | Language: | English | | Publisher: | Jones & Bartlett Learning | | Format: | Paperback | | ISBN-10: | 0763784583 | | ISBN-13: | 9780763784584 |
| Additional Details | | Edition Number: | 7 |
| Size | | Length: | 458 pages | | Thickness: | 1 in | | Weight: | 22.4 oz |
Publisher's Note Sultz (social and preventive medicine, State U. of New York at Buffalo) and Young (public health and health professions, State U. of New York at Buffalo and Canisius College) offer students of health administration, public health, medicine, and related fields an introduction to the US healthcare system and the various forces that have shaped it. From a public health and population perspective, they review the evolution of modern health care, its organization and delivery, and issues that face the system today, including financing, long-term care, mental health services, and the role of government. Topics like epidemiology, the history of medicine, program planning and evaluation, and quality of care are not discussed. This edition has been revised to reflect recent developments, including recent healthcare reform, with revised data, materials, and analysis, and discussion of the effects of the recession on hospital finances, the future of the system, the influence of pharmaceutical and insurance companies, responses to the swine flu epidemic, efforts to computerize records, the patient-centered medical home, legislative activity in specific states, and other new material. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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