Managed Care (Hcmr)

by Brown

Overview

Here in 25 authoritative articles drawn from the highly respected jour nal, Health Care Management Review, discover what you'll need to lead your organization into the generation of managed care. From short-rang e issues like making existing product lines efficient to the policy lo gic of building comprehensive, integrated systems, this reference will help managers in a provider, insurer, buyer, or government organizati on create a successfully integrated organization.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780834205048
Publisher:	Jones & Bartlett Learning, LLC
Publication date:	12/01/2007
Edition description:	1E
Pages:	280
Product dimensions:	11.00(w) x 8.25(h) x 0.59(d)

Editorial Reviews

Reviewer: Marten M. Kernis, PhD (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: Edited by a recognized leader in the field of managed care, this book is a compendium of 25 articles published between 1986 and 1993 in Health Care Management Review. The authors of the papers are distinguished scholars and professionals in the field. The papers themselves are arranged in a logical, interesting manner.
Purpose: In light of the current national discussion of health care reform and the directions the proposed policies seem to be taking, the book seems to be designed to provide a single source for selected important previously published papers about managed care. The book is not a handbook for managers of managed care, but instead it is meant to serve as a background for those who currently have policy-making responsibilities and for scholars who will have recognized Health Care Management Review as a vehicle for publication of related papers.
Audience: The audience is anticipated to include policymakers, managers, scholars, and students of health care management in general and managed care in particular.
Features: There are no photographs. Black-and-white figures, graphs, and tables are included in several of the sections. Because the papers have been published over a seven-year time span by many different authors, some references are dated, and there is some variation in the quality of selected bibliographies and selected articles.
Assessment: For persons interested in managed care, the book provides easy reference to a sample of previously published papers. Because the earlier papers contain older data, the reader must be certain to supplement these readings with more current information. The book is most useful to those who have limited access to the journal from which the articles were taken.

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