Table of Contents:
  • Overview
  • Environmental Issues: Health Care Systems, Politics and Policy, and Access
  • Health Administration: Systems, Policy and Management
  • How Politics Makes Health Policy
  • Poverty and the Ethics of Equitable Access and Quality
  • Critical Organization & Management Elements
  • The Tough Work of Leadership
  • Developing Networks to Deal with Complex Health Care Problems
  • Management Information Systems for Clinicians: Design and Function
  • Medical Care Quality: Double Track Thinking and Action
  • Quality Care and Academic Medical Centers: the Need for Physician
  • Listening to Stakeholders Input
  • Interviews, Focus Groups Surveys and Direct Observation
  • Lessons Learned from Hospital Mergers
  • Finance, Economics, and Insurance
  • Its Not About the Money: Financing and Payment of Physician Services
  • Understanding Health Insurance
  • Implementing Cost Control in Healthcare
  • Physicain Rewards in the Academic Medical Center
  • The Future
  • Design and Redesign of the Health Systems' Futures
  • Need for Health Policy Education in the Medical Curriculum
  • Healthy Communities: Past, Present, and Future.