Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management

Changing the U.S. Health Care System The third edition of Changing the U.S. Health Care System is a thoroughly revised and updated compendium of the most current thought on three key components of health care policy: improving access, ensuring quality, and controlling costs. Written by a panel of health care policy experts, this third edition highlights the most recent research relevant to health policy and management issues. New chapters address topics such as the disparities in health and in health care, information systems, and performance in the area of nursing. Revisions to chapters from the previous edition emphasize the most recent developments in the field. For more than ten years, Changing the U.S. Health Care System has provided a comprehensive, single-source account of the issues of most concern to health care policy and management students, health services researchers and policy analysts, health care managers, practitioners, and providers.Thomas H. Rice is the author of 'Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management', published 2007 under ISBN 9780787985240 and ISBN 0787985244.