Changing the U.S. health care system : key issues in health services, policy, and management / [edited by] Ronald M. Andersen, Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski ; foreword by Abdelmonem A. Afifi.

San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2001], ©2001.

xliii, 553 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.

2nd ed.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Access to health care. Improving access to care in America: individual and contextual indicators -- Public policies to extend health care coverage -- Costs of health care. Measuring health care costs and trends -- Containing health care costs -- Pharmaceutical prices and expenditures. Quality of health care. Measuring outcomes and health-related quality of life -- Evaluating the quality of care -- Public release of information on quality. Special populations. Long-term care and the elderly population -- AIDS in the twenty-first century: challenges for health services and public health --Health reform for children and families -- Mental health services and policy issues -- Women's health: key issues in access to insurance coverage and to services among nonelderly women -- Homeless persons. Directions for change. Managed care and the growth of competition -- Medicare reform -- The role of prevention -- Public health and personal health services -- The continuing issue of medical malpractice liability -- Ethical issues in public health and health services.