Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach 7th Edition

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Delivering Health Care in America seventh edition, provides a comprehensive, state-of-the-art overview of the essential components and operations of the American healthcare system, from historical origins and resources to personalized services, cost, and quality. 

Delivering Health Care in America: A Systems Approach 7th Edition

Using a unique "systemic" approach, the text brings together a wealth of information into an accessible and easy-to-read resource that highlights the complexities of how healthcare is organized and financed while providing a good overview of how the various aspects of healthcare. organizations cooperate to ensure good health.

With updated facts and figures, the new seventh edition is a comprehensive overview highlighting many new trends in the healthcare sector; examines the current challenges in terms of cost, access, and quality. and examines the Obamacare legacy and the future of healthcare reform in light of the new president.

The seventh edition includes:

• New healthcare trends

• Up-to-date information on US chronic diseases, international epidemics, and infectious diseases

• Goals for healthy people for 2020

• Consequences of health workforce shortages and key health issues after ACA

• New rules for medical devices, the effects of medical technology, and technology evaluation.

• Up-to-date information on health insurance

• New screening in nursing homes, aimed at patients in primary care; primary care providers in other countries; and current developments in alternative medicine

• Up-to-date information on hospital use and costs.

• CO OP and ACO experience under Obamacare.

• Expectations of long-term care in society. styles of institutional care.

• No insurance according to AKK; the current state of homelessness; the future of mental health and healthcare; Service Quality Indicators

• Current challenges related to cost, access and quality of health services; pay for health care

• political criticism; future public health issues/challenges in the United States and abroad.