Fiscal year 2004 field hearings : hearings before the Committee on the Budget, United States Senate, One Hundred Eighth Congress, second session : April 24, 2003, homeland security challenges, May 28, 2003, Medicare payment policy challenges, May 30, 2003, rising health costs and the uninsured, August 27, 2003, public hearing "No Child Left Behind" Act, December 10, 2003, veterans' medical care and the budget.

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Policy challenges in modern health care

Morality, politics, and health policy / James A. Morone -- Cross pressures / The employer-based health insurance system / Entrepreneurial challenges to integrated health care / Fundamental sources of health inequalities / A public health approach to firearms policy / Tobacco policy in the United States / Patterns and causes of disparities in health / Addressing racial inequality in health care / Still demanding medical excellence / Preventing medical errors / Improving quality through nursing / Improving medicare for beneficiaries with disabilities / Specialization, specialty organizations, and the quality of health care / Integrating people with mental illness into health insurance and social services / Accountability for reasonable limits to care

Jonas & Kovner's health care delivery in the United States

Jonas and Kovner's health care delivery in the United States

Health care delivery in the United States

Health Care Delivery in the United States (Jonas & Kovner's)

The current U.S. health care system / Health policy and health reform / Health care financing / Comparative health systems / Population health / Public health: policy, practice, and perceptions / Health and behavior / Access to care / Organization of medical care / Integrative models and performance / High quality health care / Health care costs and value / Comparative effectiveness / Governance, management, and accountability / Health workforce / Health information technology / The future of health care delivery in the United States

Health Policies, Health Politics : the British and American Experience, 1911-1965.

Princeton Legacy Library

Princeton legacy library.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- I. Health Policy and the Perception of Medical Progress: 1910-1918 -- II. Commitment to Hierarchy and Regionalism: Britain, 1918-1929 -- III. The Promise and Threat of Hierarchy: The United States, 1918-1933 -- IV. Strengthening Consensus: Britain, 1929-1939 -- V. Acrimony and Realignment: The United States, 1932-1940 -- VI. The Second World War and Health Policy: Britain, 1939-1945 -- VII. The Second World War and Health Policy: The United States, 1941-1946 -- VIII. Establishing the National Health Service: Britain, 1946-1951 -- IX. A Policy for Growth: The United States, 1946-1953 -- X. The Priorities of the National Health Service: Britain, 1951-1962 -- XI. A Triumphant Coalition: The United States, 1953-1965 -- Epilogue -- Note on Sources -- Index.

Ethical dimensions of health policy

Ends and means : the goals of health care / Daniel Callahan -- Justice, health, and health policy / What ethics can contribute to health policy / Health-care policy in the United States in the 20th century / Just deliberation about health care / Reality of public policy making / When public opinion counts : inserting public opinion into health policy / Medical ethics in the courts / Health policy making : the role of the federal government

Health policy and state initiatives / Private sector incentives and ethical health care / Patient v. population : resolving the ethical dilemmas posed by treating patients as members of populations / Accountability : regulating health care as a public good / Perspectives on accountability : past, present, and future / Health resource allocation for vulnerable populations / Health policy, vulnerability, and vulnerable populations / Values in research : picking research priorities ethically / Ethical considerations in conducting health-care research : protecting privacy

New urban immigrants : the Korean community in New York

Korean community in New York

Princeton legacy library

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- The Transliteration of Korean Words -- A Note on Sources -- Introduction -- Chapter One. United States Immigration Law as It Affects Koreans -- Chapter Two. The Formulation of South Korean Emigration Policy -- Chapter Three. South Korean Urbanization and Economic Development as They Affect Emigration -- Chapter Four. Small Business as an Entry Point for Korean Immigrants -- Chapter Five. The Mobility of South Korean Medical Professionals -- Introduction: The Korean Community in the New York Metropolitan Area -- Chapter Six. The Church as a Basis for the Community -- Chapter Seven. Secondary Associations of the Korean Community -- Chapter Eight. The Politics of the Korean Community -- Chapter Nine. Ethnic Media as a Mechanism of Community Integration -- Chapter Ten. The Origin of the Character Structure of Korean Immigrants -- Conclusion: The Future of the Korean Community in the New York Metropolitan Area -- Selective Bibliography -- Index.

Out of the margin : feminist perspectives on economics

Into the margin! / A heretical view of economic growth and income distribution / Varieties of deprivation : comments on chapters by Pujol and Hutchinson / Human capital and the gender earnings gap : a response to feminist critiques / Fertility and division of work in the family : a game theoretic model of household decisions / Toward a feminist, post-Keynesian theory of investment : a consideration of the socially and emotionally constituted nature of agent knowledge / Economic theory and feminist theory : comments on chapters by Polachek, Ott, and Levin / The economist as storyteller : what the texts reveal / Reading neoclassical economics : toward an erotic economy of sharing / Feminist interpretive economics : comments on chapters by Strassmann and Polanyi, and Feiner / The empirical challenges of feminist economics : the example of economic restructuring / Measuring equality in opportunity 2000 / Toward a feminist econometrics / Economic measurement : comments on chapters by MacDonald, Perrons and Redmount / The use and abuse of neoclassical theory in the political arena : the example of family and medical leave in the United States / Women and children last : a feminist redefinition of privatization and economic reform / Gender, property, and land rights : bridging a critical gap in economic analysis and policy / The empowerment of women : comments on chapters by Trzcinski, Hopkins and Agarwal

Handbook for health care ethics committees

Preface -- Introduction : The nature and functioning of ethics committees -- Curriculum for ethics committees -- Ethical foundations of clinical practice -- The role of ethics in clinical medicine -- Ethics committees in the health care setting -- Fundamental ethical principles -- The role of culture, race, and ethnicity in health care -- Conflicting obligations and ethical dilemmas -- Decision making and decisional capacity in adults -- Health care decisions and decision making -- Decision-making capacity -- Assessment and determination of capacity -- Deciding for patients without capacity -- Informed consent and refusal -- Evolution of the doctrine of informed consent -- Elements of informed consent and refusal -- The nature of informed consent -- Exceptions to the consent requirement -- Truth telling : disclosure and confidentiality -- Justifications -- Disclosure -- Disclosure of adverse outcomes and medical error -- Confidentiality.

Special decision-making concerns of minors -- Decisional capacity and minors -- Consent for minors -- Confidentiality and disclosure -- Special problems of the adolescent alone -- End-of-life issues -- Decision making at the end of life -- Defining death -- Advance health care planning -- Goals of care at the end of life -- Forgoing life-sustaining treatment -- Protecting patients from treatment -- Rejection of recommended treatment and requests to "do everything" -- Medical futility -- Palliation -- From caring to curing and back again -- The experience of and response to pain -- The moral imperative to relieve pain -- Physician-assisted suicide -- Justice, access to care, and organizational ethics -- Access to health care in the United States -- A right to health care? -- Theories of justice -- Rationing -- Health care organization ethics -- Clinical ethics consultation -- Approaches to ethics consultation / Three models of ethics consultation -- Critical success factors for ethics consultation services -- Policy -- Two approaches to clinical ethics consultation -- Sample clinical cases -- Advance directives -- Autonomy in tension with best interest -- Confidentiality -- Decisional capacity -- Disclosure and truth telling -- End-of-life care -- Forgoing life-sustaining treatment -- Goals of care -- Informed consent and refusal -- Medical futility -- Parental decision making -- Surrogate decision making.

White papers, memoranda, guidelines, and protocols -- Allocating critical care resources : keeping the teeth in ICU triage / Justice and access to unreimbursed therapies -- Guidelines for transferring patients between services -- Decision-making protocol for the patient alone -- Sample policies and procedures -- Access to bioethics consultation -- Advance directives -- Determination of brain death -- Do-not-resuscitate (DNR) orders -- Forgoing life-extending treatment -- Institutional code of ethics -- Key legal cases in bioethics -- Informed consent -- Health care decision making -- State action to protect public health -- Confidentiality -- Medical decision making for minors -- Reproductive rights -- Health care reimbursement -- An ethics committee meeting -- Index.

Newton's apple and other myths about science

Medieval and early modern science -- Myth 1. That there was no scientific activity between Greek antiquity and the scientific revolution / Myth 2. That before Columbus geographers and other educated people thought the earth was flat / Myth 3. That the copernican revolution demoted the status of the Earth / Myth 4. That alchemy and astrology were superstitious pursuits that did not contribute to science and scientific understanding / Myth 5. That Galileo publicly refuted Aristotle's conclusions about motion by repeated experiments made from the Campanile of Pisa / Myth 6. That the apple fell and Newton invented the law of gravity, thus removing God from the cosmos / Nineteenth century -- Myth 7. That Friedrich Wohler's synthesis of urea in 1828 destroyed vitalism and gave rise to organic chemistry / Myth 8. That William Paley raised scientific questions about biological origins that were eventually answered by Charles Darwin / Myth 9. That nineteenth-century geologists were divided into opposing camps of Catastrophists and Uniformitarians / Myth 10. That Lamarckian evolution relied largely on use and disuse and that Darwin rejected Lamarckian mechanisms / Myth 11. That Darwin worked on his theory in secret for twenty years, his fears causing him to delay publication / Myth 12. That Wallace's and Darwin's explanations of evolution were virtually the same / Myth 13. That Darwinian natural selection has been "the only game in town" / Myth 14. That after Darwin (1871), sexual selection was largely ignored until Robert Trivers (1972) resurrected the theory / Myth 15. That Louis Pasteur disproved spontaneous generation on the basis of scientific objectivity / Myth 16. That Gregor Mendel was a lonely pioneer of genetics, being ahead of his time / Myth 17. That "social Darwinism" has had a profound influence on social thought and policy, especially in the United States of America / Twentieth century -- Myth 18. That the Michelson-Morley experiment paved the way for the special theory of relativity / Myth 19. That the Millikan oil-drop experiment was simple and straightforward / Myth 20. That neo-Darwinism defines evolution as random mutation plus natural selection / Myth 21. That melanism in peppered moths is not a genuine example of evolution by natural selection / Myth 22. That Linus Pauling's discovery of the molecular basis of sickle-cell anemia revolutionized medical practice / Myth 23. That the Soviet launch of Sputnik caused the revamping of American science -- Education / Generalizations -- Myth 24. That religion has typically impeded the progress of science / Myth 25. That science has been largely a solitary enterprise / Myth 26. That the "scientific method" accurately reflects what scientists actually do / Myth 27. That a clear line of demarcation has separated science from pseudoscience

National medical expenditure survey : methods ;

Policy implications of medical information systems [microform].

Employment laws : medical and disability-related leave.