Policy Challenges In Modern Health Care

by Mechanic, David; Rogut, Lynn B.; Colby, David C.

• ISBN13: 9780813535777
• ISBN10: 0813535778
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-25
• Publisher: Rutgers Univ Pr

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Alvin R. Tarlov
Acknowledgments	xi
Introduction	1	(12)
David Mechanic
Lynn B. Rogut
David C. Colby
James R. Knickman
Part I The Context of Health and Health Care Policy
Morality, Politics, and Health Policy	13	(13)
James A. Morone
Cross Pressures: The Contemporary Politics of Health Reform	26	(11)
Theda Skocpol
Patricia Seliger Keenan
The Employer-Based Health Insurance System: Mistake or Cornerstone?	37	(16)
Sherry A. Glied
Entrepreneurial Challenges to Integrated Health Care	53	(18)
James C. Robinson
Part II Promoting Population Health and Reducing Disparities
Fundamental Sources of Health Inequalities	71	(14)
Bruce G. Link
Jo C. Phelan
A Public Health Approach to Firearms Policy	85	(14)
David Hemenway
Tobacco Policy in the United States: Lessons for the Obesity Epidemic	99	(16)
Kenneth E. Warner
Patterns and Causes of Disparities in Health	115	(20)
David R. Williams
Addressing Racial Inequality in Health Care	135	(16)
Sara Rosenbaum
Joel Teitelbaum
Part III Improving Quality of Care
Still Demanding Medical Excellence	151	(11)
Michael L. Millenson
Preventing Medical Errors	162	(15)
Lucian L. Leape
Improving Quality through Nursing	177	(12)
Linda H. Aiken
Improving Medicare for Beneficiaries with Disabilities	189	(17)
Lisa I. Iezzoni
Specialization, Specialty Organizations, and the Quality of Health Care	206	(17)
Rosemary A. Stevens
Part IV Frameworks for Fairness in Health Care
Integrating People with Mental Illness into Health Insurance and Social Services	223	(15)
Richard G. Frank
Thomas G. McGuire
Accountability for Reasonable Limits to Care: Can We Meet the Challenges?	238	(11)
Norman Daniels
Contributors	249	(6)
Name Index	255	(8)
Subject Index	263