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The third edition of Changing the U.S. Health Care System is a thoroughly revised and updated compendium of the most current thought on three key components of health care policy—improving access, ensuring quality, and controlling costs. Written by a panel of health care policy experts, this third edition highlights the most recent research relevant to health policy and management issues. New chapters address topics such as the disparities in health and in health care, information systems, and performance in the area of nursing. Revisions to chapters from the previous edition emphasize the most recent developments in the field.
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Andersen (health services and sociology, UCLA), Kominsky, and Rice (both: public health, UCLA) present a timely look at issues in US health policy in this third edition. Twenty- three contributions address the following five themes: access, costs, and quality of health care; health care and special populations; and ideas for reform. Specific topics include: ethnic disparities in health status, the need for improved access to care, strategies for controlling pharmaceutical prices and expenditures, performance measurement of nursing care, care for homeless persons, and medical malpractice liability, among others. This volume will be useful to students and researchers of public health and health policy; as well as health care managers, practitioners, and providers. Annotation ©2007 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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