Chronic Care, Health Care Systems and Services Integration

Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-0-7623-1147-7
Verlag: Jai Press Inc.

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, HC gerader Rücken kaschiert, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 619 g

The theme of this volume is chronic care, health care systems and services integration. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section focuses on issues that relate to health care providers. The second section contains papers that deal with home and community based services for the elderly and those who need chronic care. The third section provides lessons from countries outside the United States related to the overall themes of chronic care, systems integration and services integration.

These are themes of growing importance in the US health care system as well as in health care systems in most other developed nations. The aging of populations, already underway, and expected to increase in the coming decades will bring changes and challenges to the health care system. Many of these challenges relate to chronic care needs, since chronic care needs are more important in the elderly than in other population groups, although chronic care problems are not limited to the elderly. Once people reach their 40s and 50s, they begin to develop chronic problems. Chronic problems often require both more health care services and more complicated health care services, and thus place an emphasis on services integration.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs

Fachgebiete

• Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction to Volume. Health Care Systems: Issues of Chronic Care and Systems Integration. (J. Jacobs Kronenfeld). Section 1: Health Care Systems and Providers of Care. The Effects of Care Management Effectiveness and Practice Autonomy on Physicians' Practice and Career Satisfaction. (Thomas.T.H. Wan, Yen Ju Lin, Bill B. L. Wang). Public Support for Rural Health Care: Federal Programs and Local Hospital Subsidies.
(M.K. Zimmerman, R. McAdams). Too Poor to Get Sick? The Implications of Place, Race, and Costs on the
Health Care Experiences of Residents in Poor Urban Neighborhoods. (S. Barnes). Changing Health Care Experiences and Perspectives for Older Adults:

Comparisons of HMO and Fee-For-Services Enrollees.
(E. Kahana et al.). The Formulary, Physician, and Pharmacist: Managing and Delivering Outpatient Drug Benefits. (M. Penner, S.J. Penner, W. Keck). Section 2: Home and Community Based Care and Systems of Care: the Elderly and Chronic Care Populations. Older Persons' Expectations and Satisfaction with Home Care: Theoretical Origins and Uncharted Realms.
(E.J. Porter). The Effects of Race and Gender on Predicting In-Home and Community-Based Service Use by Older Americans. (Man Wai A. Lun). Service System Integration: Panacea for Chronic Care Populations? (T.L. Scheid). Sense of Coherence and Mental Health Service Utilization: The Case of Family Caregivers of Community-Dwelling Cognitively-Impaired Seniors. (N.R. Chumbler et al.). Section 3: Lessons from Beyond the United States. The Emergence of Self-Managed Attendant Services in Ontario. (K. Yoshida et al.).
Who Crashes onto Dialysis? Health Determinants of Patients Who are Late Referred to Chronic Care in Canada. (N. Blythe, C. Benoit). Who Advocates for Patients when Health Care Systems Fail? Ensuring Access to Essential Medicines in South Africa (and the US). (M.E. Campbell, P.J. Ballantyne). At First You Will Not Succeed: Negotiating for Care in the Context of Health Reform. (I.L. Bourgeault et al.).