1st Edition
U.S. Healthcare and the Future Supply of Physicians
Edited By Panos Minogiannis
Copyright 2004
128 Pages
by
Routledge
128 Pages
by
Routledge
142 Pages
by
Routledge
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Many different sectors of modern society influence the nation's healthcare system. Government, health insurance companies, managed care organizations, academic health centers, the pharmaceutical industry, and other groups all affect healthcare. In the areas of medical access, cost, and quality, the physician remains the key to the efficiency and effectiveness of healthcare services. Eli Ginzberg... Read more
Introduction, The Problem and Its Setting, 1. Why Focus on Physician Supply?, 2. Are More Physicians the Answer? 3. Financing of Health Care, 4. The Acute Care Hospital, 5. Aging and the Future of U.S. Health Care, 6. Physicians and Non-Physician Clinicians: Working Together and Independently, 7.. A Look Ahead to 2030
Biography
Panos Minogiannis is with the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University and a research associate at the Eisenhower Center. Currently, he is health services coordinator in Athens for the 2004 Olympics.
