The nation's health

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Part 1 Health of the nation and determinants of health

Chap. 1 The health of the nation

Trends in mortality in the twentieth century / William G. Rothstein

Healthy people 2010 objectives / Office of Public Health and Science, DHHS

Chap. 2 Determinants of health

Determinants of health / Thomas McKeown

Socioeconomic disparities in health in the United States : an agenda for action / Nancy Moss

Race or class versus race and class : mortality differentials in the United States / Vicente Navarro. Part 2 Health policy and the politics of health

Chap. 3 Health policy

Health care and health care policy in a changing world / Donald A. Barr [and others]

The process of public policymaking : a conceptual model / Beauford B. Longest, Jr

Chronic condition : why health reform fails / Sherry Glied

Decentralization devolution and the deficit : the changing role of the state and the community / Carroll L. estes and Karen W. Linkins

Chap. 4 Ethics values and ideology

Ethics in the political marketplace / Beauford B. Longest, Jr

A national bill of patients' rights / George J. Annas

Health care as a social good : trauma care and the kindness of strangers / Richard A. Culbertson

Chap. 5 The politics of health

The new politics of U.S. health policy / Jacob S. Hacker and Theda Skocpol

The politics of long-term care reform under the Clinton health plan : lessons for the future / Carroll L. Estes [and others]. Part 3 Public health clinical preventive services and the emerging collaboration of medicine and public health

Chap. 6 Public health clinical preventive services and the emerging collaboration of medicine and public health

Ten great public health achievements

United States, 1900-1999 / The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Motor-vehicle safety : a 20th century public health achievement / The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

Achievements in public health, 1900-1999 : decline in deaths from heart disease and stroke

United States, 1900-1999 / The Ceneter for Disease Control and Prevention

Guide to clinical preventative services / U.S. Preventive Services Task Force

Medicine and public health : the power of collaboration / Roz D. Lasker. Part 4 Health insurance and health care systems

Chap. 7 The health insurance system

Health insurance coverage : consumer income / Jennifer A. Campbell

The American health care system : health insurance coverage / Robert Kuttner

The American health cre system : employer-sponsored health coverage / Robert Kuttner

Chap. 8 Medicare and medicaid

The American health care system : medicare / John K. Iglehart

Rethinking medicare reform / Theodore Marmor and Jonathan Oberlander

Medicare : considerations for adding a prescription drugs benefit / Laura A. Dummit

The American health care system : medicaid / John K. Iglehart

Medicare and medicaid for the elderly and disabled poor / The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured

Medicaid's role for children / The Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid

Chap. 9 Managed care

Consumer protection in managed care : a third generation approach / John Rother

Medicaid and managed care / The Kaiser Commission on Medicaid and the Unisured

The uncertain future of managed care / Eli Ginzberg

Chap. 10 Quality of health care

The American health care system : the movement for improved quality in health care / Thomas Bodenheimer

Health system reform and quality / Robert H. Brook [and others]. Part 5 Women's health and aging

Chap. 11 Women's health and aging

Women in the health care system / Beryl Lieff Benderly

Gender and race bias in medical treatment / David Benjamin Oppenheimer and Marjorie M. Shultz

Writing a new national prescription for women's health in the 21st century / Susan J. Blumental

Health concerns across a women's lifespan : the commonwealth fund 1998 survey of women's health / Karen Scott Collins

Medicare : a women's issue / Dorothy P. Rice

Aging and gender : a new voice on the women's health agenda / Carroll L. Estes and Tracy A. Weitz