This book compiles papers presented on the Cornell University Medical College Second Conference on Health Policy in 1986, which helped the conferees focus on the implications of a steadily growing…

This book focuses on the aspects of the changing U.S. labor market, including the role that the export of advanced business services from the United States plays in the increasing…

This book provides a thorough and careful examination of fate of public programs and specialty providers, academic health centers, and graduate medical education related issues in U.S. health reform.

This book explores and assesses the problems and transformations underway in the financing of U.S. health care and in the delivery of services on the eve of an era of…

Despite the long and distinguished history of health services research in the United States, this unparalleled work is the first comprehensive account of what health services research aims to do…

Nearly 85 years ago, Wesley Clair Mitchell, the acknowledged leader of American economists during the first half of this century, wrote: Important as the art of spending is, we have…

This work examines the supply of health personnel in the USA. It considers the way it has been influenced by federal and state legislation, healthcare financing, the transformation of the…

This volume analyzes in considerable depth how fears, prejudices, social and moral values, and individual perceptions have affected and shaped the public, the personal, the professional, and the economic ways…