Product Description: Expansion of Publicly Funded Health Insurance in the United States introduces the issues, policies, and future concerns of health care within the United States to scholars of social sciences. Through research and outreach projects with the Child Health Insurance Program, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld expresses concerns with the United States health care system with a focus on government regulations in conjunction with the health care of children and less affluent Americans...read more

Product Description: The theme of this volume is chronic care, health care systems and services integration. The volume is divided into three sections. The first section focuses on issues that relate to health care providers. The second section contains papers that deal with home and community based services for the elderly and those who need chronic care...read more

Product Description: An authoritative look at the core issues of the healthcare debate in the United States, with a focus on reform of the system.• A detailed list of annotated print and web-based resources such as Fedstats, the National Center for Health Statistics, and the National Coalition on Healthcare, providing readers the tools to explore issues in more detail• Biographies of key figures in healthcare reform including Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson, and Lister Hil...read more

Product Description: This volume deals with the reorganizing of health care delivery systems: problems of managed care and other models of health care delivery. Issues of how to best organize a health care delivery system are not new, but the amount of interest in this topic in the US (as well as in other countries) has grown in recent decades...read more

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This book offers a systematic review of major issues and trends in health care policy, including those related to physical health and disease trends, mental and behavioral health concerns, reorganizing the U.S. health system, and managed care and health care personnel. Kronenfeld addresses the problems, challenges, issues and trends in the policies that determine the role and future of health care in the United States. Also covered are special populations, such as the elderly and children, reproductive health, and issues cost, quality, and access to care.Health care policies affect all Americans. Managed care has been a major trend in the past decade's reorganization of the U.S. health care system, yet its future is uncertain. Despite unparalleled spending and the world's most technologically sophisticated health care, measure such as life expectancy and infant mortality rates indicate that the country's health outcomes may not be the best. Mental health and behavioral health problems are major impediments to quality of life for some Americans, and roughly 17% of the population under 65 does not have insurance coverage for necessary health care services. Despite calls for a major overhaul of the U.S. health care system, incremental reform is more likely than major, comprehensive reform. (view table of contents)

Product Description: This volume explores issues connected with health care providers, institutions, and patients. The focus of many of the articles is on changing patterns of care delivery and provision of care, as it affects these important groups of actors within the health care system...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Schools and the Health of Children examines the debate over the provision of school health programmes in USA. In this timely contribution to an important topic Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld: defines the key issues in the debate; outlines the history of school health programmes; examines contemporary examples of school health care delivery; theorizes on the likely future of school health care. (view table of contents)

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Product Description: This 15th volume in this series on the sociology of health care covers a variety of topics concerned with changing organizational forms of delivering health care. Areas addressed include behavioural mental health care, physicians, hospitals and managed care, and nurses. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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In this brief and practical guide to entering the academic job market, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld and Marcia Lynn Whicker guide readers through the basics of job searching. They provide advice on a number of key factors including interview preparation and presentation. (view table of contents)

This practical book guides the reader through the potentially problematic areas of academic ethics. Recognizing the political and legal, as well as moral, dimensions of ethical questions, the authors offer strategies to help deal with many of the ethical dilemmas that may arise during an academic career.

Product Description: This practical guide clarifies the tenure process and gives concrete advice for graduate students and junior faculty members on the strategy required to maximize the chance of achieving tenure. The authors explain the agenda of tenure decisions, emphasizing the need to think politically and focus attention on the priorities of the decision makers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)