Foreword
Acknowledgments
About the Authors
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:  Long Term Care
Chapter 9:  Mental Health Services
Chapter 10:  Public Health and the Role of Government in Health Care
Chapter 11:  Research: How Health Care Advances
Chapter 12:  The Future of Health Care
Appendix A:   Abbreviations and Acronyms
Appendix B:  Websites
Index