Specific updates:

• Updated information on many developed and developing nations’ healthcare systems
• The global threat of avian influenza
• Health policy agenda of the Bush administration
• Progress towards Healthy People 2010 goals
• Contemporary examples of policy approaches to pressing issues facing the U.S. healthcare delivery system
• The effects of corporatization, information revolution, and globalization on health care delivery.
• Descriptions of current trends in the U.S. healthcare workforce, including the growing role of hospitalists and the ongoing nursing shortage
• The section on Information Technology has been expanded to include subsections on Electronic health records and e-health.
• Medicare Part D
• Prospective payment initiatives for inpatient psychiatric facilities and inpatient rehabilitation facilities
• Pay-for-performance initiative
• The role of outpatient and primary care services, with a focus on trends in public payments for home health services
• Role of long-term care hospitals and reimbursement for their services
• Disease management as a strategy to manage utilization
• The role of inpatient rehabilitation facilities
• Updated information on health services for special or vulnerable populations
• Updated information on healthcare costs, access, and quality, including the trend towards pay-for-performance
• State strategies to provide universal coverage
• State Children’s Health Insurance Plan reauthorization issues
• The President’s Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief
• High-deductible health plans
• Insurance restructuring in Massachusetts
• Challenges in long-term care
• The era of evidence-based medicine

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