Jonas and Kovners Health Care Delivery in the United States or Political Education

Jonas and Kovner's Health Care Delivery in the United States: 8th Edition

Author: Anthony R Kovner

Designated a Doody's Core Title!

Winner of an AJN Book of the Year Award!

How do we understand and also assess the health care of America? Where is health care provided? What are the characteristics of those institutions which provide it? Over the short term, how are changes in health care provisions affecting the health of the population, the cost of care, and access to care?

Health Care Delivery in the United States, 8th Edition discusses these and other core issues in the field. Under the editorship of Dr. Kovner and with the addition of Dr. James Knickman, Senior VP of Evaluation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, leading thinkers and practitioners in the field examine how medical knowledge creates new healthcare services. Emerging and recurrent issues from wide perspectives of health policy and public health are also discussed.

With an easy to understand format and a focus on the major core challenges of the delivery of health care, this is the textbook of choice for course work in health care, the handbook for administrators and policy makers, and the standard for in-service training programs.

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Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age

Author: Christopher T Cross

In this important new book, Christopher Cross traces the evolution of federal education policy during the latter half of the 20th century -- from World War II to the present, including a separate chapter on the new federal law, No Child Left Behind, by Paul Manna. Cross brings to this book his own experience of 32 years in Washington, combined with research done in several presidential libraries and interviews with more than 20 people who held key positions during that time. What emerges is a highly readable chronicle of how the federal role in education has been transformed. Political Education: National Policy Comes of Age is the only book to cover public K-12 education policy in the modern era. Policymakers and practitioners will find this essential reading as they prepare for the changes of a new era of federal influence. Parents and voters will find it helpful in evaluating the proposals that will emerge as political candidates debate policy options.

Table of Contents:

	Foreword
	Preface
	Acknowledgments
	Introduction: A Policy Primer
1	Setting the Stage: The Early History	1
2	The Truman and Eisenhower Years: Impact Aid and NDEA Pass; Construction Support and General Aid Fail	5
3	The Kennedy and Johnson Years: Failure and, Finally, Success	15
4	The Nixon, Ford, and Carter Years: From Trust to Nailing Everything Down	41
5	The Reagan Years: The Bully Pulpit and Loosening the Strings	71
6	Two Bushes and a Clinton: Remarkable Bipartisanship Expands the Federal Role	91
7	Leaving No Child Behind	126
8	Lessons Learned from a Half-Century of Federal Policy Development	144
9	The Future Federal Role: Observations and Ideas	158
	Notes	173
	References	175
	Suggested Reading	183
	Index	185
	About the Author	194