Guide to U.S. Health and Health Care Policy

Herausgeber: Oliver, Thomas R

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Guide to U.S. Health and Health Care Policy provides the analytical connections showing students how issues and actions are translated into public policies and institutions for resolving or managing health care issues and crises, such as the recent attempt to reform the national health care system. The Guide highlights the decision-making cycle that requires the cooperation of government, business, and an informed citizenry in order to achieve a comprehensive approach to advancing the nation's health care policies. Through 30 topical, operational, and relational essays, the book addresses the development of the U.S. health care system and policies, the federal agencies and public and private organizations that frame and administer those policies, and the challenges of balancing the nation's health care needs with the rising costs of medical research, cost-effective treatment, and adequate health insurance. Key Features: * The 30 topical essays investigate the fundamental political, social, economic, and procedural initiatives that drive health and health care policy decisions affecting Americans at the local, regional, and national levels * Essential themes traced throughout the chapters include providing access to health care, national and international intervention, nutrition and health, human and financial resource allocation, freedom of religion versus public policy, discrimination and health care policy, universal health care coverage, private health care versus publicly funded health care, and the immediate and long-term costs associated with disease prevention, treatment, and health maintenance * A Glossary of Key Health Care Policy Terms and Events, a selected Master Bibliography, and a thorough Index are included. This must-have reference for political science and public policy students who seek to understand the issues affecting health care policy in the U.S. is suitable for academic, public, high school, government, and professional libraries.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Sage Publications
• Seitenzahl: 504
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. September 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 279mm x 216mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 1610g
• ISBN-13: 9781452270739
• ISBN-10: 1452270732
• Artikelnr.: 40926039

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations About the Editor Contributors INTRODUCTION: BEYOND THE STABLE STATE-NEW CHALLENGES AND DIRECTIONS FOR U.S. HEALTH POLICY - Thomas R. Oliver PART I. EVOLUTION OF AMERICAN HEALTH CARE POLICY (BEGINNINGS TO TODAY) - Thomas R. Oliver 1. Origins and Development of Government
s Role in Health Policy (Colonial Era to Present) - Kant Patel 2. The Long Struggle for Universal Health Care (1900s-Present) - Jonathan Oberlander PART II. GOVERNMENT ORGANIZATIONS THAT DEVELOP, FUND, AND ADMINISTER HEALTH POLICY (1789-TODAY) 3. The Department of Health and Human Services: Responsibilities and Policies (1953-Present) - Beryl A. Radin 4. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Anticipatory Action in the Face of Uncertainty (1946-Present) - Rob A. DeLeo 5. The Food and Drug Administration (1962-Present) - Mary K. Olson 6. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (1965-Present) - Thomas R. Oliver 7. The Departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs: Responsibilities and Policies (1947-Present) - Christopher E. Johnson and Ann M. Nguyen 8. The United States Supreme Court and the Department of Justice (1789-Present) - Darrell J. Kozlowski 9. Budgeting and Health Care Policy (1970s-Present) - Roy T. Meyers 10. Federalism: Cooperation and Conflict Between State and Federal Health Care Responsibilities (1960s-Present) - Carol S. Weissert and Jaclyn Bunch PART III. CONTEMPORARY HEALTH POLICY ISSUES: GOALS AND INITIATIVES (1920s-TODAY) 11. Evolution of Health Planning (1920s-1970s) - Evan M. Melhado 12. Evolution of Health Planning (1970s-Present) - Evan M. Melhado 13. Government Financing of Health Care (1940s-Present) - Donald H. Taylor 14. Biomedical Research Policy and Innovation (1940s-Present) - Michael McGeary and Robert Cook-Deegan 15. Building an Effective and Sustainable Health Care Workforce (1960s-Present) - Thomas C. Ricketts 16. Promoting Health Care Quality and Safety (1960s-Present) - Michael K. Gusmano 17. Strategies for Health Care Cost Containment (1980s-Present) - B. Rick Mayes 18. Heath and Health Care Policy: Ethical Perspectives (1970s-Present) - Andrew Flescher PART IV. CONTEMPORARY HEALTH POLICY ISSUES: PEOPLE AND POLICIES (1960s-TODAY) 19. Children
s Health and Health Care Policy (1960s-Present) - Samira Soleimanpour and Claire D. Brindis 20. Women
s Issues and American Health Care Policy (1960s-Present) - Deborah R. McFarlane and Rongal D. Nikora 21. Minorities, Immigrants, and Health Care Policy: Disparities and Solutions (1960s-Present) - David Barton Smith 22. Aging and Health Care Policy (1990s-Present) - Pamela Nadash and Edward Alan Miller 23. Fifty Years of Progress in Disease and Injury Prevention (1950s-Present) - Cari Cuffney and Patrick Remington 24. Mental Health and Social Policy (1960s-Present) - David A. Rochefort 25. Nutrition, Physical Activity, and the Obesity Epidemic: Issues, Policies, and Solutions (1960s-Present) - Thomas D. Fahey and Michael W. Fahey 26. Interest Groups, Think Tanks, and Health Care Policy (1960s-Present) - Susan Giaimo PART V. U.S. RESPONSE TO GLOBAL HEALTH CHALLENGES (1980s-TODAY) 27. Conintuing Challenges of Infectious Disease (1980s-Present) - Kenrad E. Nelson 28. Emergency Preparedness: Bioterrorism, Armed Conflict, Natural Disasters, and Other Public Health Threats (2000s-Present) - Lance Gable 29. Twenty-first Century Challenges to Health and Heath Care: Noncommunicable Diseases, Environmental Threats, and Human Rights (2000s-Present) - Diana M. Bowman, Andrew S. Jessmore, and Scott L. Greer 30. The Governance of Population Health: Reflections on the Analytical Approaches of Contributors to the Guide - Daniel M. Fox Appendix A: Selected Federal Health and Health Care Agencies and Offices Appendix B: Bibliography Index