Changing the U.S. Health Care System: Key Issues in Health Services Policy and Management, 4th Edition

Since the first edition was published in 1996, 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.

The fourth edition of Changing the U.S. Health Care System is a thoroughly revised and updated compendium of evidence-based views of the most important current issues in the field. Written by a panel of health care policy experts, this new edition highlights access to health care, cost of health care, quality of health care, special populations, and directions for change. This resource also offers deep coverage of health reform and its impact on all areas and regions of health services.

Each chapter is written by experts in the field who integrate evidence to explain the current condition and present support for needed change in our health care system.