Introduction to Health Care Services: Foundations and Challenges - Softcover

Healey, Bernard J.; Evans, Tina Marie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1118407938 ISBN 13: 9781118407936

Verlag: Jossey-Bass, 2015

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A comprehensive guide to the structure, synergy, and challenges in U.S. health care delivery

Introduction to Health Care Services: Foundations and Challenges offers new insights into the most important sectors of the United States' health care industry and the many challenges the future holds. Designed to provide a comprehensive and up-to-date understanding of the system, this textbook covers the many facets of health care delivery and details the interaction of health, environments, organizations, populations, and the health professions. Written by authors with decades of experience teaching and working in health care administration and management, the book examines the current state and changing face of health care delivery in the United States. Each chapter includes learning objectives and discussion questions that help guide and engage deeper consideration of the issues at hand, providing a comprehensive approach for students. Cases studies demonstrating innovations in the delivery of health care services are also presented.

Health care administration requires a thorough understanding of the multiple systems that define and shape the delivery of health care in the United States. At the same time, it is important for students to gain an appreciation of the dilemma confronting policy makers, providers, and patients in the struggle to balance cost, quality, and access. Introduction to Health Care Services: Foundations and Challenges is an in-depth examination of the major health care issues and policy changes that have had an impact on the U.S. health care delivery system.

• Includes information on U.S. health care delivery, from care to cost, and the forces of change
• Focuses on major industry players, including providers, insurers, and facilities
• Highlights challenges facing health care delivery in the future, including physician shortages, quality care, and the chronic disease epidemic

The U.S. health care system is undergoing major reform, and the effects will ripple across every sector of the industry. Introduction to Health Care Services: Foundations and Challenges gives students a complete introduction to understanding the issues and ramifications.

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BERNARD J. HEALEY, PHD, is professor of health care administration at King's College in Wilkes Barre, Pennsylvania. Dr. Healey has four books and over 100 articles about leadership in health care, public health, health policy, and health care partnerships.

TINA MARIE EVANS, PHD, ATC, is associate professor and department head of applied health studies at Pennsylvania College of Technology. She is an active researcher, publishing and presenting on various allied health topics on the local, regional, national, and international levels.

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INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOUNDATIONS AND CHALLENGES

Nowhere are the changing times more apparent than in the health care industry, which is why aspiring managers and administrators in the field need to be prepared with an understanding of what the future holds. Introduction to Health Care Services: Foundations and Challenges gives undergraduate and graduate students an up-to-date understanding of health care today and tomorrow.

Unlike many texts, Introduction to Health Care Services provides an overview of health care that thoroughly addresses mental health and public health care services. It also focuses on the next major era in the United States health care industry: the shift toward preventative and ambulatory services.

Highlights include:

• Roles for leadership in the health care industry
• Forces of change in health care, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
• The turn to quality health care outcomes and improved access to care
• Community-centered health home model of care, its analysis, and its future
• Four in-depth case studies demonstrating health care delivery principles

By taking a look into the future of health care, students will gain the ability to apply their creativity and to innovate in ways that will have a lasting impact at this exciting time of health care transformation.

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INTRODUCTION TO HEALTH CARE SERVICES FOUNDATIONS AND CHALLENGES

Nowhere are the changing times more apparent than in the health care industry, which is why aspiring managers and administrators in the field need to be prepared with an understanding of what the future holds. Introduction to Health Care Services: Foundations and Challenges gives undergraduate and graduate students an up-to-date understanding of health care today — and tomorrow.

Unlike many texts, Introduction to Health Care Services provides an overview of health care that thoroughly addresses mental health and public health care services. It also focuses on the next major era in the United States health care industry: the shift toward preventative and ambulatory services.

Highlights include:

• Roles for leadership in the health care industry
• Forces of change in health care, including the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
• The turn to quality health care outcomes and improved access to care
• Community-centered health home model of care, its analysis, and its future
• Four in-depth case studies demonstrating health care delivery principles

By taking a look into the future of health care, students will gain the ability to apply their creativity and to innovate in ways that will have a lasting impact at this exciting time of health care transformation.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Jossey-Bass
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2015
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1118407938
• ISBN 13: 9781118407936
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 480
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Wiley-VCH GmbH; product_safety@wiley.com; ; Boschstrasse 12; Weinheim; 69469; Deutschland