Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery Enhanced 8th Edition

Dedication
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgements
About the Authors
About the Contributors
Introduction
New to the Eighth Edition
Chapter1 Overview of Health Care: A Population Perspective
Chapter2 Benchmark Developments in U.S. Health Care
Chapter3 Health Information Technology
Chapter4 Hospitals: Origin, Organization, and Performance
Chapter5 Ambulatory Care
Chapter6 Medical Education and the Changing Practice of Medicine
Chapter7 The Health Care Workforce
Chapter8 Financing Health Care
Chapter9 Long-Term Care
Chapter10 Mental Health Services
Chapter11 Public Health and the Role of Government in Health Care
Chapter12 Research: How Health Care Advances
Chapter13 Future of Health Care
AppendixA Abbreviations and Acronyms
AppendixB Web Sites
Glossary