Essentials of Health Services

Third Edition
Author: Stephen J. Williams
ISBN #: 1401899315
©2005   Publish Date: 03/24/2005
Binding: PB
Pages: 224
Publisher: Cengage Learning

Price: $174.95

Product Benefits:

  • An overview of the health care system examines the need for health services and the methods for measuring access to our health services.
  • The settings in which health care is offered to consumers and organizations, including the pharmaceutical industry, are described and analyzed.
  • Major categories of providers such as hospitals, mental health services, health care personnel, and the pharmaceutical industry are discussed.
  • The way we pay for, manage, control, and evaluate our health care system is assessed, including insurance and reimbursement mechanisms.
  • New sections in chapter 10 update readers on current trends pertaining to technology and research
  • Online Companion with PowerPoint and an electronic Instructor?s Manual, replaces the print Instructor?s Manual and transparencies
  • Regulatory and managed care and planning mechanisms are addressed.
  • Health care policy and politics and their effect on how the health care system has evolved, as well as their potential effects in the future, are examined.

Table of Contents:

Part One: An Overview of Health Care in the United States; 1 The Big Picture, 2 The Underlying Basis for Health Services Utilization, 3 Access to Health Care Services, Part Two: The Resources for Providing Care; 4 Ambulatory Health Services: Backbone of the System, 5 Public Health Services, 6 Hospitals and Health Systems, 7 Mental and Behavioral Health Services, 8 Long-Term Care Services, 9 The People Who Provide Health Care Services, 10 The Pharmaceutical Industry, Part Three: Paying For, Managing, Controlling, and Evaluating the System; 11 Paying for Health Care, 12 Managed Care and the Reorganization of Health Services, 13 Regulating and Planning for the System, 14 Quality of Care, 15 National Health Policy

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