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Offers insights into the composition and working of the full spectrum of health care services in the United States, outlining up-to-the-minute trends and future policy options in the wake of dwindling confidence in previous health care reform initiatives. The authors are all recognized as top researchers in the field, drawing on their own investigations to address such issues as AIDS, ethics, costs, quality, malpractice, and regulation versus competition.
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Improving access to care in America: individual and contextual indicators / Ronald M. Andersen, Pamela L. Davidson
Ethnic disparities in health status / Antronette K. Yancey, Roshan Bastani, Beth A. Glenn
Disparities in health care / Leo S. Morales, Alexander N. Ortega
Public policies to extend health care coverage / E. Richard Brown, with Shana Alex Lavarreda
Measuring health care costs and trends / Thomas H. Rice
Containing health care costs / Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski
Controlling pharmaceutical prices and expenditures / Stuart O. Schweitzer, William S. Comanor
Measuring outcomes and health-related quality of life / Patricia A. Ganz ... [et al.]
Evaluating the quality of care / Elizabeth A. McGlynn
Public release of information on quality / Elizabeth A. McGlynn, John L. Adams
Health care information systems / Jeff Luck, Paul Fu Jr.
Performance measurement of nursing care / Jack Needleman, Ellen T. Kurtzman, Kenneth W. Kizer
Long-term care and the elderly population / Steven P. Wallace ... [et al.]
AIDS in the twenty-first century : challenges for health services and public health / David S. Zingmond, William E. Cunningham
Health reform for children and families / Moira Inkelas ... [et al.]
Mental health services and policy issues / Susan L. Ettner, Janet C. Link
Women's health : key issues in access to health insurance coverage and to services among nonelderly women / Roberta Wyn, Beatriz M. Solís
Homeless persons / Lisa Arangua, Lillian Gelberg
Managed care and the growth of competition / Gerald F. Kominski, Glenn A. Melnick
Medicare reform / Gerald F. Kominski, Jeanne T. Black, Thomas H. Rice
Public health and personal health services / Lester Breslow, Jonathan E. Fielding
The continuing issue of medical malpractice liability / Ruth Roemer
Ethical issues in public health and health services / Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, Ruth Roemer.
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