Product Description

Health and Health Care 2010, Second Edition, offers well-researched coverage of health insurance, managed care, health care providers, the health workforce, medical technologies, information technologies, consumerism, public health services, mental health, child health, health of the elderly, chronic care, and health behaviors, and more. Each of the volume's topics starts with historical background leading into the contemporary setting and is followed with predicted short-term developments and forecasts reaching to the year 2010. Acknowledging the difficulty of long-term predictions, even by experts, the projections are cast as "stormy," "long and winding," or "sunny."

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #228914 in Books
• Published on: 2001-11-12
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 300 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9780787959746
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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Review
"This book is nonstop information in an easy-to-read, understandable format." (Journal for Healthcare Quality, 10/03)

"This book is nonstop information in an easy-to-read, understandable format." -- Journal for Healthcare Quality, 10/03

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Praise for the First Edition

"A valuable contribution for all of us concerned about the future of health care and our personal welfare."
— Journal of the American Medical Association

"The book is an excellent contribution toward predicting the next decade of health care experience in the United States. I know of no other resource that provides such a high-level analysis with efficiency and clarity. Four Stars!"
— Doody Publishing, Inc.

"Superb analyses for policymakers and health care providers forecasting trends in health insurance, technology and workforce."
— The American Journal of Nursing/American Nurses Association 2000 Book of the Year Award; (winner in the category of Community and Public Health)

"Overall, the report is easy to read, data and graphs are presented clearly, and information is based on an integration of diverse research."
— Journal for Healthcare Quality

From the Publisher
Institute for the Future is an independent, nonprofit research firm specializing in long-term forecasting, envisioning alternative future scenarios, and anticipating the effects of next-generation technologies on health, society, and business. Located in Silicon Valley, the Institute is ideally situated to track emerging trends in biotechnology, information technology, and other critical factors that will have an impact on the strategic plans of organizations. For more than thirty years, the Institute has forecasted critical technological, demographic, health, and business trends.

Customer Reviews

Thoughts on Health and Health Care 2010
This is a very interesting prediction of what health care may hold for us this decade. I enjoyed reading forecasts of what the population will be like and their lifestyles, as well as buying habits. Health careers that will be booming were discussed as well as what medical advances will flourish. I found it interesting that this publication does not really predict a nursing shortage as everyone else is predicting. The discussion of insurance plan growth and changes was less interesting to this reader but necessary.

An Excellent Reference on the Evolving Health Care Landscape
Where is our nation's health-care system headed in the next decade? And how will we cope with the inevitable collision of rising costs, politics and human needs?

This excellent book is one of the best overviews I've read on the topic. First published in late 2001, it's now available in an updated 2nd edition. It was funded by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and compiled by the Institute for the Future. Even if you don't agree with all of the predictions, you will respect the honesty and thoroughness of the editors' work.

Unlike works of social criticism and political diatribe, this volume avoids most partisan positions in favor of evidence-based conclusions on the following main topics:

1. America's changing demographic structure (not just age, but also ethnicity, socio-economic status and other variables)
2. The changing role of hospitals and related health-care institutions
3. Political and economic pressures on rising health-care costs
4. The rise of tiered health-care and insurance changes
5. New directions for health-care technologies, such as targeted pharmaceuticals and imaging
6. Patterns in health-care employment and professional training

This well-written book is packed with valuable charts, graphs, source-notated facts and objective statistics from a wide variety of reliable sources. No matter what your position on each issue, you'll find this a volume a tremendous resource for analysis and discussion. Well done!

2010 Forecast is Behind the times
This text book is out of date even though it is a forecast up to 2010. The copywrite on it is 2000. Some of the issues the author presents are current for the year 2005 and this is already 2007.