Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management (Jossey-Bass health series) - Hardcover

Andersen, Ronald M.; Rice, Thomas H.; Kominski, Gerald F.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0787954047 ISBN 13: 9780787954048

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons, 2001

Synopsis

Here, explore in-depth, the possibilities for public health and policy reform. The second 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, controlling costs, and ensuring quality. Written by a stellar panel of experts in the field of health care policy, this second edition highlights the most recent research relevant to health policy issues. This valuable resource also includes analyses of current health care policy challenges and presents a wide-range of viable solutions. In addition, the book contains an overview of the opportunities in the growing fields of public health and health policy.

About this title

About the Author

RONALD M. ANDERSEN is the Fred W. and Pamela K. Wasserman Professor of Health Services and professor in the department of sociology at the University of California, Los Angeles. THOMAS H. RICE is professor, department of health services, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health. GERALD F. KOMINSKI is an assistant professor, department of health services and associate director, Center for Health Policy Research, University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health. They are the coeditors of the first edition of Changing the U.S. Health Care System (Jossey--Bass, 1998).

Edition details

• Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
• Publication date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0787954047
• ISBN 13: 9780787954048
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 608