The Healthcare Imperative - Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes: Workshop Series Summary (Paperback)

The United States has the highest per capita spending on health care of any industrialized nation but continually lags behind other nations in health care outcomes including life expectancy and infant mortality. National health expenditures are projected to exceed $2.5 trillion in 2009. Given healthcare's direct impact on the economy, there is a critical need to control health care spending. According to The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes, the costs of health care have strained the federal budget, and negatively affected state governments, the private sector and individuals. Healthcare expenditures have restricted the ability of state and local governments to fund other priorities and have contributed to slowing growth in wages and jobs in the private sector. Moreover, the number of uninsured has risen from 45.7 million in 2007 to 46.3 million in 2008. The Health Imperative: Lowering Costs and Improving Outcomes identifies a number of factors driving expenditure growth including scientific uncertainty, perverse economic and practice incentives, system fragmentation, lack of patient involvement, and under-investment in population health. Experts discussed key levers for catalyzing transformation of the delivery system. A few included streamlined health insurance regulation, administrative simplification and clarification and quality and consistency in treatment. The book is an excellent guide for policymakers at all levels of government, as well as private sector healthcare workers.

General

Imprint:	National Academies Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	2011
First published:	2009
Authors:	Pierre L. Young • LeighAnne Olsen • Roundtable on Evidence-Based Medicine • Roundtable on Value & Science-Driven Health Care • Institute of Medicine
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 0mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	852
ISBN-13:	978-0-309-14433-9
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General
LSN:	0-309-14433-7
Barcode:	9780309144339

Is the information for this product incomplete, wrong or inappropriate? Let us know about it.

Does this product have an incorrect or missing image? Send us a new image.

Is this product missing categories? Add more categories.

Review This Product

No reviews yet - be the first to create one!