Explore in-depth the possibilities for public health and policy reform. The second edition of Changing the U.S. Health Care System is a thoroughly revised and updated compendium of the most current thought on three key components of health care policy-improving access, controlling costs, and ensuring quality. Written by a stellar panel of experts in the field of health care policy, this second edition highlights the most recent research relevant to health policy issues. This valuable resource also includes analyses of current health care policy challenges and presents a wide-range of viable solutions. In addition, the book contains an overview of the opportunities in the growing fields of public health and health policy.

Explore in-depth the possibilities for public health and policyreform. The second edition of Changing the U.S. Health CareSystem is a thoroughly revised and updated compendium of themost current thought on three key components of health carepolicy-improving access, controlling costs, and ensuring quality.Written by a stellar panel of experts in the field of health carepolicy, this second edition highlights the most recent researchrelevant to health policy issues. This valuable resource alsoincludes analyses of current health care policy challenges andpresents a wide-range of viable solutions. In addition, the bookcontains an overview of the opportunities in the growing fields ofpublic health and health policy.

Foreword.Introduction and Overview (R. Andersen, et al.).ACCESS TO HEALTH CARE.Improving Access to Care in America: Individual and ContextualIndicators (R. Andersen & P. Davidson).Public Policies to Extend Health Care Coverage (E. Brown).COSTS OF HEALTH CARE.Measuring Health Care Costs and Trends (T. Rice).Containing Health Care Costs (T. Rice & G. Kominski).Pharmaceutical Prices and Expenditures (S. Schweitzer & W.Comanor).QUALITY OF HEALTH CARE.Measuring Outcomes and Health-Related Quality of Life (P. Ganz& M. Litwin).Evaluating the Quality of Care (E. McGlynn & R. Brook).Public Release of Information on Quality (E. McGlynn & J.Adams).SPECIAL POPULATIONS.Long-Term Care and the Elderly Population (S. Wallace, etal.).AIDS in the Twenty-First Century: Challenges for Health Servicesand Public Health (D. Mosen, et al.).Health Reform for Children and Families (N. Halfon, etal.).Mental Health Services and Policy Issues (S. Ettner).Women's Health: Key Issues in Access to Insurance Coverage andto Services Among Nonelderly Women (R. Wyn & B. Solis).Homeless Persons (L. Gelberg & L. Arangua).DIRECTIONS FOR CHANGE.Managed Care and the Growth of Competition (G. Kominski & G.Melnick).Medicare Reform (J. Black & G. Kominski).The Role of Prevention (C. Lewis)Public Health and Personal Health Services (L. Breslow & J.Fielding).The Continuing Issue of Medical Malpractice Liability (R.Roemer).Ethical Issues in Public Health and Health Services (P. Rosenau& R. Roemer).