{"product_id":"policy-challenges-in-modern-health-lynn-b-rogut-9780813535784","title":"Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care","description":"\u003cp\u003eHealth care delivery in the United States is an enormously complex enterprise, and its $1.6 trillion annual expenditures involve a host of competing interests. While arguably the nation offers among the most technologically advanced medical care in the world, the American system consistently under performs relative to its resources. Gaps in financing and service delivery pose major barriers to improving health, reducing disparities, achieving universal insurance coverage, enhancing quality, controlling costs, and meeting the needs of patients and families. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBringing together twenty-five of the nation's leading experts in health care policy and public health, this book provides a much-needed perspective on how our health care system evolved, why we face the challenges that we do, and why reform is so difficult to achieve. The essays tackle tough issues including: socioeconomic disadvantage, tobacco, obesity, gun violence, insurance gaps, the rationing of services, the power of special interests, medical errors, and the nursing shortage. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eLinking the nation's health problems to larger political, cultural, and philosophical contexts, \u003ci\u003ePolicy Challenges in Modern Health Care\u003c\/i\u003e offers a compelling look at where we stand and where we need to be headed.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Lynn B. Rogut\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0813535786\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780813535784\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Rutgers University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/08\/2005\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 294\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.90lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.28h x 6.26w x 0.63d","brand":"Lynn B. Rogut","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48112971514111,"sku":"9780813535784","price":37.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_ed3d5607-b18a-449c-8f3f-76d5a11f5ba5.jpg?v=1769612188","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/policy-challenges-in-modern-health-lynn-b-rogut-9780813535784","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}