Analyzing form, function, and financing of the U.S. health care system

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