Essentials of Health Services

Name: Essentials of Health Services
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ISBN: 9781401899318

ISBN-10: 1401899315

ISBN-13: 9781401899318

Edition: 3rd 2005 (Revised)

Authors: Stephen Williams

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Our national health care system is one of the nation?s most important components. What we spend and invest in health care resources and services ultimately improves how long and how well we live. As costs and structure continue to increase in complexity, it is now more important than ever to understand how the system functions?whether you are a consumer or employed by the system. Now in its third successful edition, Essentials of Health Services gives you the most straightforward, uncomplicated explanation of how our health care system is structured and how it functions so you can better understand, use, and enhance the services that directly affect your life.

Book details

List price: $174.95
Edition: 3rd
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: Delmar Cengage Learning
Publication date: 3/24/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 224
Size: 7.90" wide x 9.20" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.792
Language: English

Stephen Williams is Peabody Professor of North American Archaeology and Ethnography, Emeritus, and former Director of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology at Harvard University.




An Overview of Health Care in the United States



The Big Picture



The Underlying Basis for Health Services Utilization



Access to Health Care Services,



The Resources for Providing Care



Ambulatory Health Services: Backbone of the System



Public Health Services



Hospitals and Health Systems



Mental and Behavioral Health Services



Long-Term Care Services



The People Who Provide Health Care Services



The Pharmaceutical Industry,



Paying For, Managing, Controlling, and Evaluating the System



Paying for Health Care



Managed Care and the Reorganization of Health Services



Regulating and Planning for the System



Quality of Care



National Health Policy