Kapitel in diesem Buch

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. PREFACE vii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
5. Introduction 1
6. PART I. The Context of Health and Health Care Policy
7. CHAPTER 1. Morality, Politics, and Health Policy 13
8. CHAPTER 2. Cross Pressures 26
9. CHAPTER 3. The Employer-Based Health Insurance System 37
10. CHAPTER 4. Entrepreneurial Challenges to Integrated Health Care 53
11. PART II. Promoting Population Health and Reducing Disparities
12. CHAPTER 5. Fundamental Sources of Health Inequalities 71
13. CHAPTER 6. A Public Health Approach to Firearms Policy 85
14. CHAPTER 7. Tobacco Policy in the United States 99
15. CHAPTER 8. Patterns and Causes of Disparities in Health 115
16. CHAPTER 9. Addressing Racial Inequality in Health Care 135
17. PART III. Improving Quality of Care
18. CHAPTER 10. Still Demanding Medical Excellence 151
19. CHAPTER 11. Preventing Medical Errors 162
20. CHAPTER 12. Improving Quality through Nursing 177
21. CHAPTER 13. Improving Medicare for Beneficiaries with Disabilities 189
22. CHAPTER 14. Specialization, Specialty Organizations, and the Quality of Health Care 206
23. PART IV. Frameworks for Fairness in Health Care
24. CHAPTER 15. Integrating People with Mental Illness into Health Insurance and Social Services 223
25. CHAPTER 16. Accountability for Reasonable Limits to Care 238
26. CONTRIBUTORS 249
27. NAME INDEX 255
28. SUBJECT INDEX 263