To Improve Health and Health Care 1997: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology (To Improve Health and Health Care: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology) - Softcover

Isaacs, Stephen L.; Knickman, James R.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787909092 ISBN 13: 9780787909093

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 1997

Synopsis

At the Frontlines of Health Research

Since 1972, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nation′s largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. The Foundation is dedicated to educating the public about health care innovation through findings from the projects it supports. This book, the first in a new series, offers you an in–depth look at programs funded by The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Written for health care professionals and interested members of the public, the series will provide useful lessons to leaders and educators as they develop plans and policies for the next century.

The cases discussed here illustrate how the Foundation is tackling some of today′s key health care issues, and focuses specificly on three areas of concern––access to care, changes in the health care system, and improving conditions for vulnerable groups.

This volume focues on:

• The media and managed care
• Medical malpractice
• Measuring access to care
• Programs for homeless families
• Immunization services for children
• Improving health policy at the state level
• Shaping the health care workforce
• Chronic care services
• Death and dying
• Physicians and the uninsured
• Sexual behavior and AIDS

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Review

"RWJ–sponsored projects have thoroughly examined many important issues in healthcare during the 1990s. The scholars writing each chapter are thoughtful and erudite. Reders interested in the history and programs of RWJ will certainly find the book highly informative...individual chapters in this book are gems and the dedicated reader will certainly be rewarded." Eugene C. Rich, MD, Creighton University Medical Center, (Internet review–Doody′s Weekly E–Mail Bulletin)

From the Back Cover

Profiles of the most current investigative efforts funded by the prestigious Robert Wood Johnson FoundationSince 1972 the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has supported research efforts that touch on a broad range of public health care issues. In this volume, leading health care researchers who are funded by the RWJF report on their most current investigative efforts. Written in a highly accessible style, the projects represented in this book are as timely as today′s headlines. Some of the research topics in To Improve Health and Health Care include the media and health systems, medical malpractice, smoking cessation, access to care, the problems of homelessness, health services for children, improving health policy at the state government level, improving the health care workforce.

About this edition

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0787909092
• ISBN 13: 9780787909093
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 268