Public Health in the Market
Public Health in the Market

Author: Nancy Milio

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780472111367

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Is a healthy profit compatible with a healthy population?

Rural Health in the United States
Rural Health in the United States

Author: Thomas C. Ricketts

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 1999-10-07

Total Pages: 233

ISBN-13: 0199759723

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Many of the 61 million people who live in rural America have limited access to health care. Almost a quarter of the nation's population lives in rural places yet only an eighth of our doctors work there. Sponsored by the U.S. Office of Rural Health Policy, this unique book provides the facts about this imbalance and interprets them in the context of government programs that promote the placement of doctors and the operation of hospitals in rural places while paying them less to treat Medicare and Medicaid beneficiaries. The authors' comprehensive analysis of rural health care delivery shows where there are differences in rates of death and disease between rural areas using maps, graphs, and plain-English descriptions. The book provides a thorough look at health care in rural America, giving a snapshot of how doctors, hospitals, and technology are unevenly distributed outside the nation's metropolitan areas.

Report
Report

Author: Council on Graduate Medical Education (U.S.)

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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America's Health Care Safety Net
America's Health Care Safety Net

Author: Institute of Medicine

Publisher: National Academies Press

Published: 2000-09-04

Total Pages: 304

ISBN-13: 030906497X

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America's Health Care Safety Net explains how competition and cost issues in today's health care marketplace are posing major challenges to continued access to care for America's poor and uninsured. At a time when policymakers and providers are urgently seeking guidance, the committee recommends concrete strategies for maintaining the viability of the safety netâ€"with innovative approaches to building public attention, developing better tools for tracking the problem, and designing effective interventions. This book examines the health care safety net from the perspectives of key providers and the populations they serve, including: Components of the safety netâ€"public hospitals, community clinics, local health departments, and federal and state programs. Mounting pressures on the systemâ€"rising numbers of uninsured patients, decline in Medicaid eligibility due to welfare reform, increasing health care access barriers for minority and immigrant populations, and more. Specific consequences for providers and their patients from the competitive, managed care environmentâ€"detailing the evolution and impact of Medicaid managed care. Key issues highlighted in four populationsâ€"children with special needs, people with serious mental illness, people with HIV/AIDS, and the homeless.