Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair
Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair

Author: James A. Morone

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2005-03-10

Total Pages: 395

ISBN-13: 0198038135

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America may be one of the wealthiest countries in the world, yet its citizens have lower life expectancy, more infant mortalities, and higher adolescent death rates than those in most other advanced industrial nations--and even some developing countries. In Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair a distinguished group of health policy experts pointedly examines this troubling paradox, as they chart the stark disparities in health and wealth in the United States. Rich in insight and extensive in scope, these incisive essays explain how growing income inequality, high poverty rates, and inadequate coverage combine to create the U.S.'s current healthcare difficulties. Ultimately, Healthy, Wealthy, and Fair not only identifies the problems contributing to America's healthcare woes but also outlines concrete policy proposals for reform, issuing a clarion call to end the stalemate over health reform.

The Health Care Revolution
The Health Care Revolution

Author: Carl F. Ameringer

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2008-04-09

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 0520254805

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Along the way, he explores questions about the acquisition, control, and loss of political and economic power in a book that provides an essential perspective on the politics and law behind health policy in the United States."--BOOK JACKET.

Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care
Medicare Prospective Payment and the Shaping of U.S. Health Care

Author: Rick Mayes

Publisher: JHU Press

Published: 2006-12-20

Total Pages: 274

ISBN-13: 0801888875

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This is the definitive work on Medicare’s prospective payment system (PPS), which had its origins in the 1972 Social Security Amendments, was first applied to hospitals in 1983, and came to fruition with the Balanced Budget Act of 1997. Here, Rick Mayes and Robert A. Berenson, M.D., explain how Medicare’s innovative payment system triggered shifts in power away from the providers (hospitals and doctors) to the payers (government insurers and employers) and how providers have responded to encroachments on their professional and financial autonomy. They conclude with a discussion of the problems with the Medicare Modernization Act of 2003 and offer prescriptions for how policy makers can use Medicare payment policy to drive improvements in the U.S. health care system. Mayes and Berenson draw from interviews with more than sixty-five major policy makers—including former Treasury secretary Robert Rubin, U.S. Representatives Pete Stark and Henry Waxman, former White House chief of staff Leon Panetta, and former administrators of the Health Care Financing Administration Gail Wilensky, Bruce Vladeck, Nancy-Ann DeParle, and Tom Scully—to explore how this payment system worked and its significant effects on the U.S. medical landscape in the past twenty years. They argue that, although managed care was an important agent of change in the 1990s, the private sector has not been the major health care innovator in the United States; rather, Medicare’s transition to PPS both initiated and repeatedly intensified the economic restructuring of the U.S. health care system.

Psychology of Health and Fitness
Psychology of Health and Fitness

Author: Barbara Brehm

Publisher: F.A. Davis

Published: 2014-02-19

Total Pages: 481

ISBN-13: 0803640943

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Learn how to apply the psychology of health and fitness to your exercise programs and to solve the motivational and behavioral problems you’ll encounter every day in practice. You’ll explore the scientific principles and variables that influence behavior as you develop the confidence to design effective lifestyle interventions for disease prevention and develop individualized exercise programs that promote optimal health.

Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada
Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada

Author: Richard Nadeau

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-07-11

Total Pages: 188

ISBN-13: 1317695283

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Heated debate surrounds the topic of health care in both the US and in Canada. In each country, these debates are based in some measure on perceptions about health care in their neighboring country. The perceptions held by Canadians about the US health care system, or those held by Americans about Canada, end up having significant impact on health policy makers in both countries. Health Care Policy and Opinion in the United States and Canada examines these perceptions and their effects using an extensive cross-national survey made up of two public opinion polls of over 3,500 respondents from the US and Canada. The book first develops a rigorous and detailed explanation of the factors that contribute to levels of satisfaction among Americans and Canadians with respect to their health care systems. It then attempts to study the perceptions of Canadians vis-à-vis the US health care system as well as the perception of Americans toward Canada’s health care system. The authors examine how these perceptions impact health policy makers, and show how the survey results indicate remarkable similarities in the opinions expressed by Americans and Canadians toward the problems in the health care system, heralding perhaps a measure of convergence in the future. The authors present how perceptions on health care indicate elements of convergence or divergence between the views of Canadians and Americans, and discuss how these citizen opinions should inform health care policy change in both countries in the near future. This book should generate interest in scholars of health care, public opinion, and comparative studies of social policies and public opinion.

Answering Back
Answering Back

Author: David Coates

Publisher: A&C Black

Published: 2009-12-31

Total Pages: 297

ISBN-13: 1441126937

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Helps progressives respond to the current sustained right-wing criticism of U.S. domestic and foreign policy, in a book that focuses on eight areas of debate, including welfare reform, social security, universal health care, immigration control, the financial meltdown, the wars on Iraq and Afghanistan and more. Original.

Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care
Social Movements and the Transformation of American Health Care

Author: Jane C. Banaszak-Holl

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2010-06-24

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 0195388291

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This is a collection of essays which examine dynamics of change in health care institutions through the lens of contemporary theory and research on collective action. The book conceptualizes the American health care system as being organized around multiple institutions.

Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered Care
Patient Advocacy for Health Care Quality: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered Care

Author: Jo Anne L. Earp

Publisher: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Published: 2008-05-02

Total Pages: 646

ISBN-13: 0763749613

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As a contribution to the emerging healthcare quality movement, Patient Advocacy for Healthcare Quality: Strategies for Achieving Patient-Centered Care is distinct from any others of its kind in its focus on the consumer’s perspective and in its emphasis on how advocacy can influence change at multiple social levels. This introductory volume synthesizes patient advocacy from a multi-level approach and is an ideal text for graduate and professional students in schools of public health, nursing and social work.

The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy
The Oxford Handbook of U.S. Social Policy

Author: Daniel Beland

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2014-11-06

Total Pages: 689

ISBN-13: 0199838518

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The American welfare state has long been a source of political contention and academic debate. This Oxford Handbook pulls together much of our current knowledge about the origins, development, functions, and challenges of American social policy. After the Introduction, the first substantive part of the handbook offers an historical overview of U.S. social policy from the colonial era to the present. This is followed by a set of chapters on different theoretical perspectives available for understanding and explaining the development of U.S. social policy. The three following parts of the volume focus on concrete social programs for the elderly, the poor and near-poor, the disabled, and workers and families. Policy areas covered include health care, pensions, food assistance, housing, unemployment benefits, disability benefits, workers' compensation, family support, and programs for soldiers and veterans. The final part of the book focuses on some of the consequences of the U.S. welfare state for poverty, inequality, and citizenship. Many of the chapters comprising this handbook emphasize the disjointed patterns of policy making inherent to U.S. policymaking and the public-private mix of social provision in which the government helps certain groups of citizens directly (e.g., social insurance) or indirectly (e.g., tax expenditures, regulations). The contributing authors are experts from political science, sociology, history, economics, and other social sciences.