Health Policy

by Harrington, Charlene; Estes, Carroll L.; Hollister, Brooke (CON)

• ISBN13: 9780763746575
• ISBN10: 0763746576
• Edition: 5th
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-05-09
• Publisher: JONES & BARTLETT PUBLISHING CO

Summary

The Fifth Edition of this best-selling health policy text is updated with a collection of new articles on various health policies. Health Policy provides a basic overview of the health policy and political process as it relates to thte health status of the US, the organization and issues of the healthcare system, and healthcare economics.

Table of Contents

Health politics and political action	p. 3
Health policy : what it is and how it works	p. 4
Play to win : know the rules	p. 15
Primer on policy : the legislative process at the federal level	p. 27
It's the institutions, stupid! : why comprehensive national health insurance always fails in America	p. 30
Health status of the population and vulnerable groups	p. 41
Why not the best? : results from a national scorecard on U.S. health system performance	p. 42
Health disparities based on socioeconomic inequalities : implications for urban health care	p. 49
Mortality of white Americans, African Americans, and Canadians : the causes and consequences for health of welfare state institutions and policies	p. 61
The gender gap : new challenges in women's health	p. 70
Child poverty in rich countries	p. 76
Access to care	p. 81
Income, earnings, and poverty : data from the 2005 American community survey	p. 82
Medicaid and the uninsured : who are the uninsured? : a consistent profile across national surveys	p. 88
Access to care and utilization among children : estimating the effects of public and private coverage	p. 92
The effects of state parity laws on the use of mental health care	p. 95
Aging and long-term care	p. 99
Older people	p. 100
Medicare and chronic care at the beginning of the 21st century : improving but a long way to go	p. 108
Unmet need for personal assistance services : estimating the shortfall in hours of help and adverse consequences	p. 118
The economic and health security of today's young women	p. 123
Social security privatization and older women : a feminist political economy perspective	p. 134
Informalization of long-term caregiving : a gender lens	p. 142
Organizational change	p. 159
Exploding the merger myth in U.S. health care	p. 160
The transition from excess capacity to strained capacity in U.S. hospitals	p. 166
Health industry practices that create conflicts of interest : a policy proposal for academic medical centers	p. 171
The U.S. long-term care field : a dialectical analysis of institutional dynamics	p. 177
Primary care, race, and mortality in U.S. states	p. 185
Labor issues	p. 191
From the doctor's workshop to the iron cage? : evolving modes of physician control in U.S. health systems	p. 192
Projections and trends in RN supply : what do they tell us about the nursing shortage?	p. 198
Costs of occupational injury and illness within the health services sector	p. 207
Quality of care	p. 215
The national healthcare quality and disparities reports : an overview	p. 216
Quality of care in for-profit and not-for-profit health plans enrolling Medicare beneficiaries	p. 221
Improving nurse-to-patient staffing ratios as a cost-effective safety intervention	p. 226
State nursing home enforcement systems	p. 232
Relationship of nursing home staffing to quality of care	p. 238
Initial home health outcomes under prospective payment	p. 245
Financing health care	p. 255
Economic analysis in health care	p. 256
High and rising health care costs-part 1 : seeking an explanation	p. 266
High and rising health care costs-part 2 : the role of health care providers	p. 275
Employer health benefits	p. 281
Squeezed : why rising exposure to health care costs threatens the health and financial well-being of American families	p. 286
Public financing	p. 289
Medicaid at forty	p. 290
How well does Medicaid work in improving access to care?	p. 300
Medicare at a glance	p. 305
Are women better off because of the new Medicare drug legislation?	p. 311
Medicare and Medicaid : trends and issues affecting access to care for low-income elders and people with disabilities	p. 316
Privatization of Medicare : toward disentitlement and betrayal of a social contract	p. 321
Private insurance and managed care	p. 331
National estimates of the effects of mandatory Medicaid managed care programs on health care access and use, 1997-1999	p. 332
Medicare beneficiary out-of-pocket costs : are Medicare advantage plans a better deal?	p. 336
The rise and fall of managed care	p. 345
Competition and health plan performance : evidence from health maintenance organization insurance markets	p. 353
The effects of recent employment changes and premium increases on adults' insurance coverage	p. 356
Health savings accounts and high-deductible health plans : why they won't cure what ails U.S. health care	p. 361
International health systems	p. 369
The world health situation	p. 370
Health, poverty, and MDG	p. 373
Rising health costs put pressure on public finances, finds OECD	p. 376
Access to care, health status, and health disparities in the United States and Canada : results of a cross-national population-based survey	p. 379
Privatising the NHS : an overview	p. 384
Multinational corporations and health care in the United States and Latin America : strategies, actions, and effects	p. 393
Compared to other countries, how exceptional are the health and income security arrangements of the United States?	p. 400
Health reform for the future	p. 405
Myths as barriers to health care reform in the United States	p. 407
Why Congress did not enact health care reform	p. 414
Why the United States has no national health insurance : stakeholder mobilization against the welfare state, 1945-1996	p. 419
Crowd-out and the politics of health reform	p. 427
Improving medical practice and the economy through universal health insurance	p. 433
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