Analyzing form, function, and financing of the U.S. health care system / Paula Stamps Duston, PhD.

Definitions of health and illness
Public health : defining determinants of health
Health status indicators
Role of culture in the organization of health care systems
Political and philosophical values that influence the US health care system
Do we have as system?
People who make the medical care system go : the workforce
Hospitals
Ambulatory care settings : functions, structures and services
Other parts of the medical care system : functions and services
Health economics 101 : do health care goods and services follow the economic rules?
From economics to health policy and regulation
Health care financing : health insurance
Health insurance : two models
The payment function : money moving through the system
Why does medical care cost so much and what can we do about it?
Health care reform : past as prologue
Taking care of the elderly : Medicare
Taking care of the poor : Medicaid
Taking care of almost everybody else : other targeted
Programs
A persistent problem : racial and ethnic
Disparities in health outcomes
Alternate models for health care systems : international
Perspectives.