Author: Mark DiCamillo
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Category : Ballot
Languages : en
Pages : 6

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Author: Mark DiCamillo
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Category : Health insurance
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mark DiCamillo
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Category : Public opinion
Languages : en
Pages : 0

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Author: Mark DiCamillo
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Category : Public opinion
Languages : en
Pages : 7

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Author: Institute of Medicine
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309144337
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 852

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The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.

Author: Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health
Publisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309581907
Category : Medical
Languages : en
Pages : 240

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"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.

Author: Mark DiCamillo
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 11

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Author: Karen Glanz
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Category : Health behavior
Languages : en
Pages : 52

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Author: David S. Broder
Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
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Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 278

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Offers an analysis of the political initiative process, which involves citizens voting directly on new laws.

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Category : Medical care
Languages : en
Pages : 38

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