Now in its Sixth Edition, this best-selling health policy text is updated with a collection of new articles on various health policies. This compilation of articles focuses on the new healthcare environment, healthcare reform, trends in healthcare delivery, and quality and safety. Each chapter contains multiple article excerpts on that chapter's topic, providing various perspectives on the most pressing topics the healthcare system faces. A brand new chapter is included, titled Health Policy and Corporate Influences.

Health Policy: Crisis and Reform

Medical Books

Estes, Carroll L.

Chapman, Susan A.

Dodd, Catherine

Hollister, Brooke

Administration & Medicine Economics

Jones& Bartlett Learning

Fiscal Austerity and Aging: Shifting Government Responsibility for the Elderly (SAGE Library of Social Research)

The authors draw on the work they have done for a major research centre, in order to assess both the shifts in policy towards the elderly which have been wrought by the austerity politics of the 1980s, and the likely long-term impact of such changes. The views taken of older people, the history of public policy toward the aged, the shifting responsibility between state and federal government are discussed.

Politics & Social Sciences

Newcomer, Robert J.

Social Sciences

Sage Publications, Inc.

Business & Money

Long Term Care of the Elderly: Public Policy Issues (SAGE Library of Social Research)

This book is both an introduction to the existing literature on long term care issues, and an empirical assessment of policies (in the USA) to date. Its focus is primarily on state policies and the broad discretion of states in the implementation of health, income, and social service programmes that represent the essential basis of long term care for the elderly. It will help to provide a greater understanding of current public policies and their potential impact on the aged, thus providing a foundation for reassessing the federal role in long term care service systems.

Harrington, Charlene

Associates, n/a

This book is both an introduction to the existing literature on long term care issues, and an empirical assessment of policies (in the USA) to date. Its focus is primarily on state policies and the broad discretion of states in the implementation of health, income, and social service programmes that represent the essential basis of long term care for the elderly. It will help to provide a greater understanding of current public policies and their potential impact on the aged, thus providing a foundation for reassessing the federal role in long term care service systems.

This book examines the implementation of the prospective payment system (PPS) in the US for Medicare hospital reimbursement, which started in 1983.  The authors discuss the impact of the PPS on health care provision and conclude that rather than improving conditions for the elderly in their transition from hospital to community and decreasing escalating health costs, the PPS has restructured the system with the result that the greater financial burden is placed on informal caregivers, community and home health care agencies and the elderly themselves.

The Long Term Care Crisis: Elders Trapped in the No-Care Zone

Swan, James H.

This book examines the implementation of the prospective payment system (PPS) in the US for Medicare hospital reimbursement, which started in 1983. The authors discuss the impact of the PPS on health care provision and conclude that rather than improving conditions for the elderly in their transition from hospital to community and decreasing escalating health costs, the PPS has restructured the system with the result that the greater financial burden is placed on informal caregivers, community and home health care agencies and the elderly themselves.

Social Policy and Aging: A Critical Perspective

This groundbreaking book provides comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field in the US and internationally. The body of work presented in this volume, in developing this critical perspective, aims to contribute to the understanding of old age and aging in the context of problems and issues of the larger social order in the world′s most advanced capitalist nation, the U.S.A.. Since Estes′ first writing on the political economy of aging in 1979, there has been growing recognition and incorporation of her critical perspective as one of the major paradigms in the field of aging.

Health, Fitness & Dieting

This groundbreaking book provides comprehensive treatment of the political economy of aging by a scholar widely credited as the founder and key thinker of this field in the US and internationally. The body of work presented in this volume, in developing this critical perspective, aims to contribute to the understanding of old age and aging in the context of problems and issues of the larger social order in the world's most advanced capitalist nation, the U.S.A.. Since Estes' first writing on the political economy of aging in 1979, there has been growing recognition and incorporation of her critical perspective as one of the major paradigms in the field of aging.

Aging Enterprise: A Critical Examination of Social Policies and Services for the Aged (Social and Behavioral Science Series)

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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Health Policy: Crisis and Reform

Fiscal Austerity and Aging: Shifting Government Responsibility for the Elderly (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Fiscal Austerity and Aging: Shifting Government Responsibility for the Elderly (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Long Term Care of the Elderly: Public Policy Issues (SAGE Library of Social Research)

Long Term Care of the Elderly: Public Policy Issues (SAGE Library of Social Research)

The Long Term Care Crisis: Elders Trapped in the No-Care Zone

The Long Term Care Crisis: Elders Trapped in the No-Care Zone

Social Policy and Aging: A Critical Perspective

Social Policy and Aging: A Critical Perspective

Aging Enterprise: A Critical Examination of Social Policies and Services for the Aged (Social and Behavioral Science Series)