An Introduction to the US Health Care System: Sixth Edition - Softcover

Jonas, Steven; Goldsteen, Raymond L.; Goldsteen, Karen

Softcover

ISBN 10: 082610214X ISBN 13: 9780826102140

Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc, 2007

Synopsis

This bestselling text is a concise and balanced classic presenting the domestic health care system. It explains the five major components of the U.S. health care system: health care institutions (hospitals and nursing homes); health care personnel (physicians, nurses, and others); financing mechanisms; research and educational institutions that produce biomedical knowledge and health personnel; and, firms producing "health commodities" (such as pharmaceutical drugs and hospital equipment).

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Review

"Dr. Jonas has been a voice in the wilderness preaching sense about both health and health services for years. He clearly identifies the problems and issues facing the system and its beneficiaries, based upon the evidence he has carefully marshaled for the reader...and he challenges the reader to make sense out of the facts, understanding the evidence within a historical and international context, and come up with judgments on needed changes and how to go about making them, starting with the facts which he so generously provides you." --From the Foreword by Anthony R. Kovner, PhD Professor of Health Policy and Management New York University"

About the Author

Raymond Goldsteen, DrPH , is Director, MPH Program and Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, School of Medicine and Health Sciences, University of North Dakota. He was founding Director of the Graduate Program in Public Health and Professor of Preventive Medicine in the School of Medicine at SUNY Stony Brook. Dr. Goldsteen has an extensive background in health care and was formerly a director of the health policy research centers at the University of Illinois in Urbana-Champaign, University of Oklahoma College of Public Health, and the West Virginia University School of Medicine. He is co-author of Introduction to Public Health, now in its second edition. Karen Goldsteen, PhD, is Research Associate Professor, Department of Family and Community Medicine, MPH Program, University of North Dakota. She was Professor of Health Technology and Management in the Graduate Program in Public Health at SUNY in Stony Brook, NY. She was a Pew Health Policy Fellow at the University of California, San Francisco. Dr. Goldsteen is co-author of Introduction to Public Health, now in its second edition

Edition details

• Publisher: Springer Publishing Co Inc
• Publication date: 2007
• ISBN 10: 082610214X
• ISBN 13: 9780826102140
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 6
• Number of pages: 328