Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery (Paperback)

by Harry A. Sultz (Author), Kristina M. Young (Author) "In recent years, health care, especially its medical or curative aspect, has captured as never before the interest of the public, political leaders, and an..." (more)
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Product Description
Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery, Third Edition differentiates itself from other health delivery texts with its public health or "population-based" approach to health care delivery issues.

By describing the changing roles of the component parts of the U.S. health care system - as well as the technical, economic, political, and social forces responsible for those changes - the new edition of this leading text continues to provide a current and complete overview that is carefully tailored to facilitate both teaching and learning.Completely updated to reflect new data and developments, HEALTH CARE USA covers trends in health care costs: effects of the Balanced Budget Act of 1997; managed care industry consolidation; increasing economic pressure on hospitals; ethics in public health; changing professional prerogatives of physicians; more information on nursing and allied health functions; additional graphics to illustrate key concepts.

About the Author
Harry A. Sultz, DDS, MPH. is Professor Emeritus of Social and Preventive Medicine at the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences and Dean Emeritus of its School of Health Related Professions. Currently, he is an Adjunct Professor at the School of Law. He has also served as Adjunct Professor, Health Systems Management, School of Management and Clinical Assistant Professor, Department of Family Medicine. An epidemiologist, health care services planner, and researcher, he established and, for 26 years, directed the Health Services Research Program of Buffalo’s School of Medicine. His extensive research experience serves as background for the various editions of this book and for the courses that he teaches about health care and health policy.

Kristina M. Young, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor of Social and Preventive Medicine at the School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences at the State University at Buffalo. She is also an adjunct faculty member of the University’s School of Law. She teaches graduate level courses in the organization of health care and in health policy. She is also president of Kristina M. Young and Associates, Inc., a management consultation and training group specializing in health care and human services organizations. Previously, she served as president of a corporate training and development organization; as executive vice president of a not-for-profit organization dedicated to advancing the joint interests of a major teaching hospital and a health maintenance organization; and as the vice president for research and development for a teaching hospital system and executive director of its health education and research foundation. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 461 pages
• Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Publishers; 3rd edition (March 2001)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0834219123
• ISBN-13: 978-0834219120
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.9 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 3.4 out of 5 stars See all reviews (13 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #1,382,074 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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13 of 13 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars An excellent introductory text for undergrads, March 29, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery (Hardcover)

I used this book as a textbook for a junior-level undergrad course I taught entitled Health Systems Administration. It provides an excellent overview to our U.S. health care system and covers basic material such as how medical education, ambulatory care and health care personnel needs currently are addressed and likely changes in the future. I anticipate using this text again when I teach the course.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Health Care in a Nutshell, January 11, 2008

By	janechild "janechild" (Atlanta, GA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization And Delivery (Paperback)

I'm graduating this semester in Health Care Mangement. I reference this book my entire time. This book was a great summary of healthcare. Many say it's hard to read, but I think it did a very good job getting the point across. Before reading this book, I had no knowledge of health care. I felt this one book was able to cover every aspect of health care. This book is well worth it.

13 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Poorly written, February 16, 2005

By	Mrs. Watchett "Wanda" (Los Angeles, CA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Health Care, U.S.A: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery (Paperback)

This book is hard to read. I would rather have a book that is not filled with extra large words, nominalizations and third person perspective. Here is an example:

Policy makers and care managers assert that physicians' expressed concern over quality is a way to resist scrutiny and accountability without regard for economic efficiency.

And another:

In spite of its impressive accomplishments, the American health care system exhibits inexplicable contradictions in objectives, unwarranted variations in performance, effectiveness, and efficiency, and long-standing difficulties in its relationships with the public and with governments.

Can you imagine paying $64.95 for this book if you were a student and had to buy it? Why must academics write this way!?!?!

Thank goodness I only paid $10 for the used version.