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Sultz & Young's health care USA : understanding its organization and delivery
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Health Care USA, Ninth Edition offers students of health administration, public health, medicine, and related fields a wide-ranging overview of America's health care system. Combining historical pe...
Health Care USA, Ninth Edition offers students of health administration, public health, medicine, and related fields a wide-ranging overview of America's health care system. Combining historical perspective with analysis of current trends, including the implementation of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) and the Medicare Access & CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA), this thoroughly updated edition charts the evolution of modern American health care, providing a complete examination of its organization and delivery while offering critical insight into the issues that the U.S. health system faces today. Balanced in perspective and comprehensive in its coverage, Health Care USA, Ninth Edition, provides students with a clearly organized, straightforward illustration of the complex structures, relationships and processes of this rapidly growing industry.
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- Kristina M. Young, MS, Clinical Assistant Professor Emerita, School of Public Health and Health Professions, State University of New York at Buffalo, Buffalo, New York, President, Kristina M. Young & Associates, Inc., Buffalo, New York ; Philip J. Kroth, MD, MS, Director, Biomedical Informatics Research, Training and Scholarship, Health Sciences Library and Informatics Center, Associate Professor and Section Chief for Clinical Informatics, Divisions of Translation Informatics and General Internal Medicine, Albuquerque, New Mexico
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- English
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- Ninth edition
- Burlington, MA : Jones & Bartlett Learning, [2018]
- ©2018
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- xxv, 422 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 23 cm
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- 9781284114676, 1284114678
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- ocn959698396
- Preceded by Health care USA : understanding its organization and delivery / Harry A. Sultz, Kristina M. Young. 8th ed. c2014.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Overview of health care : a population perspective -- Benchmark developments in U.S. health care -- Health information technology -- Hospitals : origin, organization, and performance -- Ambulatory care -- Medical education and the changing practice of medicine -- The health care workforce -- Financing health care -- Long-term care -- Behavioral health services -- Public health and the role of government in health care -- Research : how health care advances -- Future of health care
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- Medical care -- United States.
- Medical policy -- United States.
- Delivery of Health Care
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