David C. Colby

Stephen L. Isaacs

Since 1972, The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation has been the nationÕs largest philanthropy devoted exclusively to health. Their premier annual review of public health and health care research, To Improve Health and Health Care Vol. XIII: The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Anthology focuses on the pressing health and health care issues facing our country. As part of the FoundationÕs efforts to inform the public, this volume provides an in-depth look into the programs it funds. The series offers leaders educators, policy makers, and practitioners with valuable lessons for years to come.

To Improve Health and Health Care

Diana J. Mason

The Nursing Profession: Development, Challenges, andOpportunities is designed to be a resource for those who areinterested in or touched by nursing. This book is designed in partto complement the report by the Institute of Medicine on the futureof nursing. Readers—whether researchers or practitioners,foundation or government officials, students, or simply lay peopleinterested in nursing—should use this volume to gain a betterunderstanding of the nursing profession and the issues with whichthose in the field and related fields are grappling. Major topicsinclude: The history of nursing The nursing profession Current issues and challenges, including the nursing shortage,educating and training nurses, utilizing advanced practice nursesto their fullest, quality and cost, long-term care, community-basedcare, gender and power, and new areas for nursing A vision for the future The book begins with a comprehensive review of the nursing fieldby Diana Mason, the Rudin Professor of Nursing at theHunter-Bellevue School of Nursing, City University of New York, andformer Editor-in-Chief of the American Journal of Nursing.Mason’s chapter is followed by reprints of twenty-five of themost influential or significant articles on nursing—some ofthem classic pieces dating back to Florence Nightingale, otherspresenting more current thinking on critical issues. This kind ofsource material is rarely found in one place.

Development, Challenges, and Opportunities

The Nursing Profession

Julian E. Zelizer

Alan B. Cohen

Keith A. Wailoo

For fifty years, Medicare and Medicaid have stood at the center of a contentious debate surrounding American government, citizenship, and health care entitlement. In Medicare and Medicaid at 50, leading scholars in politics, government, economics, health policy, and history offer a comprehensive assessment of the evolution of these programs and their impact on society -- from their origins in the Great Society era to the current battles over the Affordable Care Act ("Obamacare"). These highly accessible essays examine Medicare and Medicaid from their origins as programs for the elderly and poor to their later role as a safety net for the middle class. Along the way, they have served as touchstones for heated debates about economics, social welfare, and the role of government. Medicare and Medicaid at 50 addresses key questions for understanding the past and future of health policy in America, including: · What were the origins for these initiatives, and how were they transformed over time? · What marks have Medicare and Medicaid left on society? · In what ways have these programs produced innovation, even in eras of retrenchment? · How did Medicaid, once regarded as a poor person's program, expand its benefits and coverage over the decades to become the platform for the ACA's future expansion? The volume's contributors go on to examine the powerful role of courts in these transformations, along with the shifting roles of Congress, public opinion, and state governors in the programs' ongoing evolution. From Lyndon Johnson to Barack Obama on the left, and from Ronald Reagan to George W. Bush on the right, American political leaders have tied their political fortunes to the fate of America's entitlement programs; Medicare and Medicaid at 50 helps explain why, and how those ongoing debates are likely to shape the future of the Affordable Care Act.

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