Comprehensive Healthcare for the U.S.: An Idealized Model
Autor William F. Rothen Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 ian 2010
Written by award-winning author William Roth, the book systematically explores the key elements that must be part of any comprehensive model. Roth examines facility network and staffing patterns. He looks at approaches to decision making, the financial model, the design of a universal information system, training/education, and malpractice policy. He then provides a discussion of how these challenges are dealt with by 12 other nations, all of which, according to the World Health Organization, rank higher than the U.S.in terms of services provided for citizens.
Roth tackles the larger philosophical issues and their connection to the specifics without obscuring the discussion with excessive statistics. He systematically shreds the inflammatory political rhetoric that is often used to shut down intelligent debate. He explores what it might take to make comprehensive care available to all, ways to shift our focus to wellness and prevention, the overuse of and lack of incentive for providers in universal systems, though some form of universal care is necessary, as well as the key role that the private sector must play in any approach.
From there, the author draws from the best to design an idealized model for comprehensive healthcare that would fit the unique requirements of the United States. Referenced and researched to satisfy the needs of policy professionals and sector administrators, the book is lucidly written so that it provides all stakeholders with a more complete grasp of the involved problems as well as of the proven solutions that can be put into place once we understand their value and their viability.
A highly readable book on healthcare
that‘s well worth the reading:
informative, insightful, and innovative
- Disscuses whether healthcare is a right or a privilege
- Provides essential information in an easy-to-read format that educates without burying readers in statistical data
- Draws from the best healthcare innovations in other nations
- Offers a comprehensive model for U.S. healthcare rather than just one or several pieces of such a model
- Addresses major problems including cost, variances in access and quality of care, malpractice, competition, inadequate health records and access to information, lack of a preventative focus
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781439829554
ISBN-10: 1439829551
Pagini: 174
Ilustrații: 1 b/w image
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Productivity Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1439829551
Pagini: 174
Ilustrații: 1 b/w image
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Productivity Press
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Public țintă
Professional Practice & DevelopmentCuprins
Introduction. The Current U.S. Healthcare "Mess". Structure and Decision Making Model in an Idealized Healthcare Network. Network Financial Model. Network Universal Information System. Professional Education. Dealing with Malpractice. Bibliography.
Recenzii
… the book will help readers understand the current state of the US health care system, as well as the state of other countries to which the United States is often compared. … useful for policy makers as well as for graduate students in various health care and related fields. … the book provides a starting point for discussions about US health care reform without the emotional misrepresentations that are, unfortunately, a part of the debate about health care in this country.
—Yvonne Ford, PhD, RN, CNOR, Western Michigan University, in AORN Journal, Vol. 93, No. 2, Feb. 2011
The book closes with recognition that although the idealized model is not likely to be fully implemented, it provides a standard by which to measure and shape health care reform in the US. The work is somewhat distinctive in the recent flood of books dealing with health care reform in that the author is not a health care specialist but a systems analyst.
—C. L. Kammer, The College of Wooster, CHOICE, Vol. 47, No. 11, Aug. 2010
—Yvonne Ford, PhD, RN, CNOR, Western Michigan University, in AORN Journal, Vol. 93, No. 2, Feb. 2011
The book closes with recognition that although the idealized model is not likely to be fully implemented, it provides a standard by which to measure and shape health care reform in the US. The work is somewhat distinctive in the recent flood of books dealing with health care reform in that the author is not a health care specialist but a systems analyst.
—C. L. Kammer, The College of Wooster, CHOICE, Vol. 47, No. 11, Aug. 2010
Notă biografică
William F. Roth, PhD, is currently a professor at Kutztown University in Pennsylvania, where he teaches courses in strategic planning, organization design, and management theory. Previously he taught for sixteen years at DeSales University (Center Valley, Pennsylvania), where most of the research for this book was completed.
Descriere
Award-winning author Roth solicits the contributions of health workers from around the globe to examine the mire of technical quality and inefficient delivery that has become the U.S. healthcare system. He looks at various challenges, discussing how these are dealt with by 12 nations, all of which, according to WHO, rank higher than the U.S. in terms of services provided. Roth draws from the best to design an idealized model for healthcare that would fit this country's unique requirements. Researched and referenced to satisfy policy professionals and administrators, the book is lucidly written to engage all stakeholders with a fresh understanding of what is valuable and viable.