Jacm on Managed Care or Poverty and Development

Jacm on Managed Care

Author: Seth B B Goldsmith

This collection of articles by leaders in managed care and ambulatory care provides an excellent resource for ambulatory care professionals, managed care professionals, and students. Topics covered include planning and developing managed care systems, management and financial issues in managed care, plus case studies. This book is attractively priced in soft cover.

Shelley M. Forman

This book is an interesting compilation of articles on managed care that appeared in the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management between 1980 and 1994. The purpose is to provide a practical guide to the uses and opportunities in managed care. After discussing broad issues related to health care reform and the changing managed care market, the book provides illustrations of strategies used by managers in areas such as finance, information systems, marketing, and quality assurance. The book is a positive addition to a currently important topic area despite the fact that some articles are dated. Although the articles are targeted to administrators in managed care, the book is also a very useful resource for students in graduate programs in public health, health care administration and policy, business administration, and health professions. The authors have solid credentials and have the endorsement of the Journal. The book includes charts, tables, and graphs that illustrate the central points of the articles. The references vary in length and are current. The organization of the table of contents is less satisfactory. The book is divided into three sections, but there is no discernible order within sections. The articles are neither arranged chronologically nor topically. This is a useful supplement for students and practitioners in the field of health policy and health care administration. The book combines a clear description of the impetus for development of managed care organizations with illustrations of the development and implementation of specific management strategies.

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Reviewer: Shelley M. Forman, MA, MBA (University of Illinois at Chicago)
Description: This book is an interesting compilation of articles on managed care that appeared in the Journal of Ambulatory Care Management between 1980 and 1994.
Purpose: The purpose is to provide a practical guide to the uses and opportunities in managed care. After discussing broad issues related to health care reform and the changing managed care market, the book provides illustrations of strategies used by managers in areas such as finance, information systems, marketing, and quality assurance. The book is a positive addition to a currently important topic area despite the fact that some articles are dated.
Audience: Although the articles are targeted to administrators in managed care, the book is also a very useful resource for students in graduate programs in public health, health care administration and policy, business administration, and health professions. The authors have solid credentials and have the endorsement of the Journal.
Features: The book includes charts, tables, and graphs that illustrate the central points of the articles. The references vary in length and are current. The organization of the table of contents is less satisfactory. The book is divided into three sections, but there is no discernible order within sections. The articles are neither arranged chronologically nor topically.
Assessment: This is a useful supplement for students and practitioners in the field of health policy and health care administration. The book combines a clear description of the impetus for development of managed care organizations with illustrations of the development and implementation of specific management strategies.

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3 Stars from Doody

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Poverty and Development: Into the 21st Century

Author: Tim Allen

This is the second edition of the immensely successful international text Poverty and Development in the 1990s. Each chapter introduces the student to a key topic, and is written by a specialist.

Table of Contents:

	List of authors and book production team
	Preface
	Map of countries and major cities of the world
1	Poverty and the 'end of development'	3
2	Meanings and views of development	23
3	Understanding famine and hunger	51
4	Diseases of poverty	75
5	Unemployment and making a living	99
6	Is the world overpopulated?	125
7	Environmental degradation and sustainability	141
8	A world at war	163
9	Agencies of development	189
10	Diversity in pre-capitalist societies	219
11	Colonialism, capitalism, development	241
12	The power of colonial states	271
13	Half a century of development	289
14	Socialist models of development	309
15	The second 'great transformation'? Capitalism at the end of the twentieth century	325
16	Sustainable globalization? The global politics of development and exclusion in the new world order	345
17	Democratization, 'good governance' and development	365
18	Rethinking gender matters in development	383
19	Technology, poverty and development	403
20	Life in the cities	425
21	Taking culture seriously	443
22	Genetic engineering of development? Myths and possibilities	469
23	The new politics of identity	485
24	Industrialization and development: prospects and dilemmas	509
	References	533
	Acknowledgements	553
	List of acronyms abbreviations and organizations	556
	Index	558