INTRO TO US HEALTH POLICY 4/E

fourth Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-4214-2071-4
Verlag: JOHNS HOPKINS UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 456 Seiten, Format (B × H): 178 mm x 254 mm, Gewicht: 1089 g

The fourth edition of the essential guide to the contemporary US health care system.

Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRL

Health care reform has been a dominant theme in public discourse for decades now. The passage of the Affordable Care Act was a major milestone, but rather than quell the rhetoric, it has sparked even more heated debate. In the latest edition of Introduction to US Health Policy, Donald A. Barr reviews the current structure of the American health care system, describing the historical and political contexts in which it developed and the core policy issues that continue to confront us today.

Barr’s comprehensive analysis explores the various organizations and institutions that make the US health care system work—or fail to work. He describes in detail the paradox of US health care—simultaneously the best in the world and one of the worst among developed countries—while introducing readers to broad cultural issues surrounding health care policy, such as access, affordability, and quality. Barr also discusses specific elements of US health care with depth and nuance, including insurance, especially Medicare and Medicaid. He scrutinizes the shift to for-profit managed care while analyzing the pharmaceutical industry, issues surrounding long-term care, the plight of the uninsured, the prevalence of medical errors, and the troublesome issue of nursing shortages.

The thoroughly updated edition of this widely adopted text focuses on the Affordable Care Act. It explains the steps taken to carry out the Act, the changes to the Act based on recent Supreme Court decisions, the success of the Act in achieving the combined goals of improved access to care and constraining the costs of care, and the continuing political controversy regarding its future. Drawing on an extensive range of resources, including government reports, scholarly publications, and analyses from a range of private organizations, Introduction to US Health Policy provides scholars, policymakers, and health care providers with a comprehensive platform of ideas that is key to understanding and influencing the changes in the US health care system.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barr, Donald A.

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Wirtschaftspolitik, politische Ökonomie
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
1. The Affordable Care Act and the Politics of Health Care Reform
2. Health, Health Care, and the Market Economy
3. Health Care as a Reflection of Underlying Cultural Values and Institutions
4. The Health Professions and the Organization of Health Care
5. Health Insurance, HMOs, and the Managed Care Revolution
6. Medicare
7. Medicaid and the State Children's Health Insurance Program
8. The Uninsured
9. The Increasing Role of For-Profit Health Care
10. Pharmaceutical Policy and the Rising Cost of Prescription Drugs
11. Long-Term Care
12. Factors Other Than Health Insurance That Impede Access to Health Care
13. Key Policy Issues Impacting Direction of Health Care Reform
14. Epilogue/Prologue to Health Care Reform in America

Appendix: Summary of the Changes Contained in the Affordable Care Act
On-Line Data Sources
References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Barr, Donald A.
Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD, is professor emeritus at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics. He is the author of Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health; Introduction to Biosocial Medicine: The Social, Psychological, and Biological Determinants of Human Behavior and Well-Being; and Crossing the American Health Care Chasm: Finding the Path to Bipartisan Collaboration in National Health Care Policy.

Donald A. Barr, MD, PhD, is a professor at Stanford University in the Department of Pediatrics. He is the author of Health Disparities in the United States: Social Class, Race, Ethnicity, and the Social Determinants of Health and Introduction to Biosocial Medicine: The Social, Psychological, and Biological Determinants of Human Behavior and Well-Being.