Table of Contents:
  • Historical evolution and overview of health services in the United States / Paul R. Torrens
  • The physiologic and psychological bases of health, disease, and care seeking / Lawrence A. May
  • Indicators and predictors of health services utilization / Lu Ann Aday
  • Public health agencies and services: the partnership network / William Shonick
  • Ambulatory health care services / Stephen J. Williams
  • The hospital / Claudia L. Haglund, William L. Dowling
  • The continuum of long-term care / Connie J. Evashwick
  • Mental health services / Mary Richardson
  • Medical technology and its assessment / Bryan R. Luce
  • Health care professionals / Stephen S. Mick, Ira Moscovice
  • Financing health services / Alma L. Koch.
  • Private health insurance and employee benefits / Gary Whitted
  • Managed care: restructuring the system
  • Stephen J. Williams, Paul R. Torrens
  • Influencing regulating, and monitoring the health care system / Stephen J. Williams, Paul R. Torrens
  • Health policy and the politics of health care / Philip R. Lee, A.E. Benjamin
  • Understanding the present, planning for the future: the dynamics of health care in the United States in the 1990s / Paul R. Torrens, Stephen J. Williams.