Reading List

CHLTH 494–Health Care Delivery in the United States and the United Kingdom - A Comparative Analysis
Professor: Tom O'Rourke

Intersession 2011 Reading List

The following list of required readings are intended to facilitate your analysis of the health care systems of the United States and the United Kingdom. Readings are intended to provide essential information for the course, including your visits to health care organizations and facilities in the United Kingdom. To enhance learning and do well on your final exam, readings should be completed prior to departure for the United Kingdom. Additional required readings will be handed out by the speakers at your visits. Readings and speaker lectures will be an essential component of your final examination.

I. Introduction and Background

Review sample of Web pages for most of our site visits (see Course Itinerary before departing).

Textboox

T. Bodenheimer, and K. Grumbach, Understanding Health Policy - A Clinical Approach, (*hereafter referred to as Bodenheimer & Grumbach) McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing Division, 5th edition, New York, 2008, Chaps. 1, 11, 13.

Articles

J. Walmsley, Brit-Think, Ameri-Think, Penguin Books, New York, 1987, Chapters 1 & 13. (if you like these chapters think about buying the book).

T. McKeown, "Determinants of Health" in Lee, P., et al., The Nation's Health, 5th edition, Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1997.

G. Wilensky, and D. Satcher, "Don't Forget About the Social Determinants of Health", Health Affairs, Vol. 28, No. 2, January 16, 2009, w194-w198.

T. O'Rourke, "Flat-of-the-Curve-Medicine," Encyclopedia of Health Services Research, R. Mullner, (Editor), Sage Publications Inc., Thousand Oaks, CA., Vol. 1, 2009, pp. 401-404.

R. Lamm, "The Ten Commandments of Health Care," The Nation's Health, 3rd edition, Boston: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 1990.

The John Snow Pub sheet and pages about Dr. Snow.

The Old Operating Theatre, Museum, and Herb Garret Information Sheet.

II. Health Care Delivery in the United States

Textbook

Bodenheimer & Grumbach, Chapters 2 - 9.

Articles

U. Reinhardt, "Why Does U.S. Health Care Cost So Much? (Part I)" N.Y. Times, November 14, 2008.

U. Reinhardt, "Why Does U.S. Health Care Cost So Much? Part II: Indefensible Administrative Costs," N.Y. Times, November 21, 2008.

D. Garr, "Sick and Tired of the Endless Paperwork," Newsweek, June 21, 2004.

B. Bloom, "Patient Power - The Wrong Rights," Newsweek, October 11, 1999, p. 92.

T. Bodenheimer, "What's Wrong with Profits in Health Care?" Physicians for a National Health Program, 1997, pp. 35-36.

L. Peeno, "One Physician's Confession," January 12, 1997, pp. 10-11.

N. Oswald, N., "Access to What? Health Care Reform for Whom?" Health/PAC Bulletin, Spring, 1992, pp. 28-31.

J. Geyman, "Myths As Barriers to Health Care Reform in the United States," International Journal of Health Services, Vol. 33, No. 2, 2003. pp. 315-329.

T. O'Rourke, "Commentary – Health Reform Opinions," American Journal of Health Studies, Vol. 24, No.3, 2009, pp. 374-376.

R. Riegelman, "Health Reform 101: What it Means to You and to the American People," Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Boston. 2010, pp. 3-14.

(This is a description of the proposed reform and its intended outcomes.)

D. Himmelstein, and S. Woolhandler, "Obama's reform: no cure for what ails us," British Medical Journal, March 30, 2010, p. 1778.

D. Himmelstein and S. Woolhandler and M. Almberg, "Projections of savings from health IT are baseless," excerpted from a study in the American Journal of Medicine, Nov. 20, 2009 (online).

D. Ryan, D. and T. O'Rourke, "Opportunities Lost: The Opportunity Costs of U.S. Healthcare," American Journal of Health Studies, Vol. 23, No. 1, 2008, pp. 47-53.

M. Angell, "Health Reform: Throwing Good Money After the Bad," Huffington Post, November 18, 2009.

III. Health Care Delivery in the United Kingdom

S. Boyle, "The English Health Care System," in D. Squires and others, International Profiles of Health Care Systems, The Commonwealth Fund, June 2010, pp-19-22.

D. Cameron, "We are proud of the NHS," August 13, 2009, Available at: http://blog.conservatives.com/index.php/2009/08/13/we-are-proud-of-the-nhs/

(Mr. Cameron is the leader of the British Conservative Party and was recently named Primed Minister.)

The following three readings on the NHS were published after the Labor Party lost and the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats joined in a coalition after the 2010 elections.

Press release, "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS," July 12, 2010.

Secretary of State for Health. "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS," July, 2010, pp.1-12.

Department of Health, "Improving Your NHS, What Can You Expect?" July, 2010.

British Medical Association, "Our Principles" and "BMA response to health white paper," July 12, 2010.

British Medical Association, "The principles of GP commissioning," August 20, 2010. Press release and statement.

R. Ramesh, "Pro-market agenda drives NHS reforms," July 12, 2010. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/jul/12/radical-nhs-reform-plans

N. Black, "Liberating the NHS," – Another Attempt to Implement Market Forces in English Health Care," New England Journal of Medicine, August 25, 2010.

D. Trapp, "UK primary care physicians to gain greater control under NHS reforms," American Medical News, August 16, 2010. Available at: http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2010/08/16/gvsb0816.htm

D. Campbell, "NHS reforms: Is Andrew Linsley's brutal surgery really needed?" The Observer, July 18, 2010. Available at: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/jul/18/are-nhs-reforms-really-needed

D. Berwick, "A Transatlantic Review of the NHS at 60," 1000 Lives Plus, July 1, 2008.

L. Beier, "My Twelve Years in the U.K. Health System," Health Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 3, May/June 2000, pp. 185-190.

S. Lyall, "Paying Patients Test British Health Care System," New York Times, February 21, 2008.

G. Harris, "British Balance Benefit vs. Cost of Latest Drugs," New York Times, December 3, 2008.

E. Simon, "Victory for Cancer Patients as NHS Ban on 'Top-up' Drugs is Lifted," The Telegraph, November 4, 2008.

Y. Cheung, "Substance abuse and developments in harm reduction," CMAJ, Vol. 162, No. 12, June 13, 2000, pp. 1697-1700. (For visit to the Spittal Health Center.)

J. Moskalewicz, et. al. "Harm reduction coming of age: A summary of the '18th International Conference on the Reduction of Drug Related Harm' - Warsaw, Poland: 13-17 May 2007," International Journal of Drug Policy, 724, 2007, pp. 503-508. (For our visit to the Spittal Health Center.)

E. Harrell, "Is Britain's Health-Care System Really That Bad?" Time Aug. 18, 2009. Available at: http://www.time.com/time/printout/0,8816,1916570,00.html

IV. Health Care Delivery: A Comparison of the United States and the United Kingdom

Textbook

Bodenheimer & Grumbach, Chapter 14.

Articles

L. Payer, Medicine Culture – Varieties of Treatment in the United States, England, West Germany, and France. New York: Henry Holt and Company, Inc. 1996.

K. Davis, C. Schoen, and K. Stremikis, "How the Performance of the U.S. Health Care System Compares Internationally - 2010 Update", The Commonwealth Fund, June 2010, pp. i, v-vii.

G. Anderson, and B. Frogner, "Health Spending in OECD Countries: Obtaining Value Per Dollar," Health Affairs, Vol. 27, No. 6, November/December 2008, pp. 1718-1727.

G. Anderson, et al. "It's the Prices, Stupid: Why The United States Is So Different from Other Countries," Health Affairs, Vol. 22, No. 3, May/June 2003, pp. 89-105.

G. Anderson, et al. "Health Care Spending and Use of Information Technology in OECD Countries," Health Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 3, May/June 2006, pp. 819-831.

V. From the Past to the Future

Textbook

Bodenheimer & Grumbach, Chapters 16-18.

Articles

T. O'Rourke, and N. Iammarino, "Future of Healthcare Reform in the USA: Lessons from Abroad." Expert Review of Pharmacoeconomics & Outcomes Research, Vol. 2, No. 3, June 2002, pp. 279-291.

U. Reinhardt, "Providing Access to Health Care and Controlling Costs: The Universal Dilemma," pp. 263-278.

U. Reinhardt, "Wanted: A Clearly Articulated Social Ethic for American Health Care," JAMA, Vol. 278, No. 17, November 1997, pp. 22-23.

T. O'Rourke, and N. Iammarino, "The American Mirage of Equality – Is Social Justice Myth or Reality?" American Journal of Health Education, Vol. 37, No. 1, January/February 2006, pp. 58-62.

E. Ross, "France Rated No. 1 in Health Care," June 21, 2000, pp. 1-2.

World Health Organization, "World Health Organization Assesses the World's Health Systems," WHO Press Release, June 2000, pp. 1-8.

T. O'Rourke, "Health Care Reform – Insights for Health Educators," American Journal of Health Education, Vol. 33, No. 5, Sept./Oct. 2002, pp. 297-300.

Physicians for a National Health Program, "Improve and strengthen Medicare by expanding it to all," July 1, 2010. Available at: http://pnhp.org/blog/2010/07/01/improve-and-strengthen-medicare-by-expanding-it-to-all/

L. Rodberg, "Talking Points: Why the mandate plans won't work, and why single payer "Medicare for All" is what we need," December 10, 2008. Available at: http://www.pnhp.org/news/2008/december/talking-points-why-the-mandate-plans-wont-work-and-why-single-payer-medicare-for-

M. Flowers, "After the Reform: Aiming High for Health Justice," Tikkun Magazine, May/June 2010, Available at: http://www.tikkun.org/article.php?story=may2010flowers.