Table of Contents
Figures and Tables xv
Foreword to the Third Edition xix
Foreword to the Fourth Edition xxi
The Editor xxv
The Authors xxvii
Introduction and Overview xliii
Acknowledgments lvii
Part One: Access to Health Care 1
1 The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 3Gerald F. Kominski
2 Improving Access to Care 33Ronald M. Andersen, Pamela L. Davidson, Sebastian E. Baumeister
3 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Status 71Antronette K. Yancey, Roshan Bastani, Beth A. Glenn
4 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care 103Arturo Vargas Bustamante, Leo S. Morales, Alexander N. Ortega
5 Multilevel Social Determinants of Health 135Ninez A. Ponce, Michelle Ko
6 Public Health Insurance 157Shana Alex Lavarreda, E. Richard Brown
7 Private Health Insurance 191Nadereh Pourat, Gerald F. Kominski
Part Two: Cost of Health Care 223
8 Measuring Health Care Expenditures and Trends 225Thomas H. Rice
9 Containing Health Care Costs 245Thomas H. Rice, Gerald F. Kominski
10 Promoting Pharmaceutical Access While Controlling Prices and Expenditures 269Stuart O. Schweitzer, William S. Comanor
Part Three: Quality of Health Care 305
11 Measuring Health-Related Quality of Life and Other Outcomes 307Patricia A. Ganz, Ron D. Hays, Robert M. Kaplan, Mark S. Litwin
12 Evaluating the Quality of Care 343Elizabeth A. McGlynn
13 Public Release of Information on Quality 381Elizabeth A. McGlynn, John L. Adams
14 Health Care Information Systems 413Jeff Luck, Leah J. Vriesman, Paul Fu Jr.
15 Performance Measurement of Nursing Care 455Jack Needleman, Ellen T. Kurtzman, Kenneth W. Kizer
Part Four: Special Populations 493
16 Long-Term Services and Supports for the Elderly Population 495Steven P. Wallace, Nadereh Pourat, Linda Delp, Kathryn G. Kietzman
17 HIV and AIDS in the Twenty-First Century 523Erin G. Grinshteyn, William E. Cunningham
18 Children’s Health 559Moira Inkelas, Neal Halfon, David Lee Wood
19 Homeless Persons 593Lisa Arangua, Lillian Gelberg
Part Five: Directions For Change 621
20 Changing the Health Care Delivery System 623Nadereh Pourat, Hector P. Rodriguez
21 Medicare Reform 651Gerald F. Kominski, Jeanne T. Black, Thomas H. Rice
22 Public Health and Clinical Care 681Jonathan E. Fielding, Lester Breslow, Steven M. Teutsch
23 Strengthening the Safety Net 703Dylan H. Roby
24 Ethical Issues in Public Health and Health Services 727Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau, Ruth Roemer, Frederick J. Zimmerman
Index 753