Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1: Overview of Health Care: A Population Perspective
Chapter 2: Benchmark Developments in U.S. Health Care
Chapter 3: Hospitals: Origin, Organization, and Performance
Chapter 4: Ambulatory Care
Chapter 5: Medical Education and the Changing Practice of Medicine
Chapter 6: Health Care Personnel
Chapter 7: Financing Health Care
Chapter 8: Managed Care
Chapter 9: Long-Term Care
Chapter 10: Mental Health Services
Chapter 11: Public Health and the Role of Government in Health Care
Chapter 12: Research: How Health Care Advances
Chapter 13: The Future of Health care
Appendix A- Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix B- Websites
Index
About the Authors
