Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About the Contributors
Introduction
New to the Eighth Edition
Chapter1 Overview of Health Care: A Population Perspective
Chapter2 Benchmark Developments in U.S. Health Care
Chapter3 Health Information Technology
Chapter4 Hospitals: Origin, Organization, and Performance
Chapter5 Ambulatory Care
Chapter6 Medical Education and the Changing Practice of Medicine
Chapter7 The Health Care Workforce
Chapter8 Financing Health Care
Chapter9 Long-Term Care
Chapter10 Mental Health Services
Chapter11 Public Health and the Role of Government in Health Care
Chapter12 Research: How Health Care Advances
Chapter13 Future of Health Care
AppendixA Abbreviations and Acronyms
AppendixB Web Sites
Glossary