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Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery, Third Edition differentiates itself from other health delivery texts with its public health and 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. Now with a customized home page, available at http://publichealth.jbpub.com/healthcareusa/.
Health Care USA: Understanding Its Organization and Delivery, Third Edition, aptly meets all of your teaching needs. 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 perogatives of physicians; more information on nursing and allied health functions; and additional graphics to illustrate key concepts.
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By Harry Sultz
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