As health care and medicine have become increasingly complicated, so to have the organization and structure of the nation's health care system. This text is straightforward, uncomplicated explanation of the nation's health care system: how it's structured, perhaps more importantly, how it functions. The scope of the system and its many complex and interrelated components are described, analyzed, defined and illustrated. Supplements Instructor's Manual 0-7668-1886-1

Essentials of Health Services

Medical Books

Williams, Stephen J.

Administration & Medicine Economics

Delmar/Cengage Learning

Health care industry board members are called upon to make decisions that have an enormous effect on their organizations, medical staffs, employees, and their communities. To be effective, they must understand context; the health care industry's structure and dynamics The Health Care Industry offers board members a comprehensive resource that clearly explains how health services are organized, financed, and provided. This much-needed resource contains a wealth of information and 
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<li>Explains board responsibilities</li> <li>Describes organizations that provide health services such as ambulatory care facilities, physician practices, hospitals, nursing homes, home health agencies, health systems and public health agencies</li> <li>Clarifies how money moves through the system: insurance, health plans, Medicare, Medicaid and HMOs.</li> <li>Describes the characteristics and training of health professionals including physicians, nurses, dentists, pharmacists, chiropractors, and physicians assistants</li> <li>Provides a glossary of health care terms, concepts, and acronyms</li> </ul>

The Health Care Industry: A Primer for Board Members

Pointer, Dennis D.

Jossey-Bass

This excellent fourth edition presents a descriptive and analytical overview of the U.S. health care system. The book examines the systems' organizational, operation, financing, policy, and evaluation, while focusing on the delicate balance between cost-effectiveness and quality of care.

Introduction to Health Services (A volume in the Delmar Health Services Administration Series)

Torrens, Paul R.

Cengage Learning'

A straightforward, uncomplicated explanation of the nation's health care system:how it's structured, and perhaps more importantly, how it functions. The scope of the system and its many complex and interrelated components are described, analyzed, defined and illustrated.

Essentials of Health Services (A volume in the Delmar Health Services Administration Series)

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This is a practical guide for the professional seeking to gain insight and up-to-date knowledge about the function of ambulatory care practice and the key duties of the administrator. It is geared to all ambulatory care administrators regardless of setting, as well as physicians and other clinicians. Taking an analytical approach, the book is divided into functional areas: a background and historical overview of the development of health services and ambulatory care in the U.S., the financial management of ambulatory care, the operational issues of running a practice, human resources management issues, planning and marketing the group and issues of policy and other institutional matters.

Ambulatory Care Management (3rd Ed) (Delmar Series in Health Services Administration)

Pavlock, Ernest J.

Ross, Jr Austin

An assessment manual for medical groups

Center for Research in Ambulatory Health Care Administration, Medical Group Management Association

Provides much needed information for parents and potential stepparents about to join two existing families through remarriage. In addition to advice on stepparenting, this honest guidebook offers information on financial considerations, lifestyle changes, and the way different race or religion can affect the health and sanity of all involved.

The Stepparent Challenge: A Primer for Making It Work

Politics & Social Sciences

Social Sciences

Master Media Pub Corp

A crowd of voices

Pariah Press

Roby, Dylan

Our national health care system is one of the nation's most important components. What we spend and invest in health care resources and services ultimately improves how long and how well we live. As costs and structure continue to increase in complexity, it is now more important than ever to understand how the system functions - whether you are a consumer or employed by the system. Now in its third successful edition, Essentials of Health Services gives you the most straightforward, uncomplicated explanation of how our health care system is structured and how it functions so you can better understand, use, and enhance the services that directly affect your life.

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Essentials of Health Services

The Health Care Industry: A Primer for Board Members

Introduction to Health Services (A volume in the Delmar Health Services Administration Series)

Essentials of Health Services (A volume in the Delmar Health Services Administration Series)

Ambulatory Care Management (3rd Ed) (Delmar Series in Health Services Administration)

An assessment manual for medical groups

The Stepparent Challenge: A Primer for Making It Work

A crowd of voices

Essentials of Health Services

Essentials of Health Services