| ISSN Series: | Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery | | Discipline: | + Medicine | | Subject Definition: | Delivery of Health Care-United States | | NLM Class: | W 84 | | LC Class: | RA395 | | Abstract: | Health Care USA, 8th Edition offers students of health administration, public health, medicine, and related fields a wide-ranging overview of America's health care system. Combining historical perspective with analysis of current trends, this expanded edition charts the evolution of modern American health care, providing a complete examination of its organization and delivery while offering critical insight into the issues that the U.S. health system faces today. From a physician-dominated system to one defined by managed care and increasingly sophisticated technology, this essential text explains the transformation underway and the professional, political, social, and economic forces that guide it today and will in the future. Balanced in perspective and comprehensive in its coverage, Health Care USA, Eighth Edition, provides students with a clearly organized, straightforward illustration of the complex structures, relationships and processes of this rapidly growing industry, including thoroughly updated information throughout, on the progress and impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA). The Eighth Edition has been thoroughly revised to reflect recent developments in this dynamic industry. In addition to updating all key financial, utilization, and other data with the latest available information, the Eighth Edition includes: NEW chapter on health information technology. Thoroughly REVISED chapter on mental health services including a new discussion of preventive behavioral services, and recent developments from the "Freedom Commission on Mental Health". Discussions of the impacts of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009 (ARRA) and Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA). "Key Terms for Review" at the conclusion of each chapter. |
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