Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States: 8th Edition (Springer Series in Geriatric Nursing)
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| Rating | : | 4.17 (604 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826120881 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 788 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-02-23 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
. Kovner is an experienced health care manager, having served as CEO of a community hospital, senior health care consultant for a large union, manager of a group practice, of a nursing home, and of a large neighborhood health center. He has directed several national demonstration programs funded by major foundations. Filerman prize for Educational leade
This book properly focuses attention on the challenges of the delivery of health care: how to achieve quality, efficiency, value, fairness, and universal access." -- Steven Schroeder, former President and Chief Executive Officer, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Professor of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley . "It is not enough for a nation to have excellent medical know-how.we need to understand how to get services to people, as well as the social responsibilities and organizational challenges in delivering services
Designated a Doody's Core Title!Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!How do we understand and also assess the health care of America? Where is health care provided? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the population, the cost of care, and access to care? Health Care Delivery in the United States, 8th Edition discusses these and other core issues in the field. Please email our Marketing Department at marketing@springerpub if you have adopted this text as you will need a password to download the guide. A print version of the Instructor's Manual is also available.. Emerging and recurrent issues from wide perspectives of health policy and public health are also discussed. Kovner and with the addition of Dr. James Knickman, Senior VP of Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, leading thinkers and practitioners in the field examine how medical knowledge creates new healthcare services. With an easy to understand format and a focus on the major core challenges of the delivery of health care, this is the textbook of choice for course work in health care, the handbook for administrators and policy makers, and the standard for in-service training programs.Instructor's Guide Now Available Online! An Instructo
Well written and interesting book about a dry subject. The chapters in this book fly by and the author does a great job of making complex topics concerning health care easy and understandable. Although this book is required for a class I am in and wasn't bought for pleasure, I do not mind reading it and actually enjoy it.