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Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States.
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Nursing Education Perspectives
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September 1, 2006
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Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States edited by Anthony R. Kovner, PhD, and James R. Knickman, PhD; New York: Springer Publishing, 2005; 753 pages, $74.95 hardcover, $48.95 softcover
Health care delivery in the United States is a complex enterprise built on business processes and dependent on rapidly changing medical science, coexisting professional and hierarchical organizational structures, and complex--and often unresolved--ethical and social issues. Government regulation of public sector reimbursement for health care, concerns for cost of care and profit margins by health care administrators, responsibility for ensuring care quality and access, ...