"Prepared for the Office of the Secretary of Defense."
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 89-95).
CONTENTS NOTE
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Ch. 1. Introduction and Background -- Ch. 2. Options for Organizing the Military Health System -- Ch. 3. Organization in the Private Sector and Tricare -- Ch. 4. Medical Readiness and Operational Medicine -- Ch. 5. Other Assessments of the MHS Organization -- Ch. 6. Assessing the Organizational Alternatives.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"Since the end of World War II, the question of whether to create a unified military health system has arisen repeatedly. Despite a variety of answers to this question, the system has largely retained its traditional structure, with separate Army, Navy, and Air Force medical departments. Now that a new managed-care program--called TRICARE--is operational, the military health system organization is once again in the spotlight. This book documents research on the organization of the military health system. It considers five alternative organizational structures for their likely impact on peacetime health care and wartime readiness. It also examines organizational models in the civilian managed-care sector that might be applied to TRICARE. The authors recommend modification of the current system organization to unify health-plan management in TRICARE and separate it from military treatment facility management. The authors also find that there is insufficient evidence to predict the necessity or effectiveness of establishing a joint command to direct the restructured TRICARE organization and other military medical activities. The outcome of a regional test, now underway, can better inform this decision."--Rand abstracts.
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Managed Care Programs.
Military Medicine-- organization & administration.
Armed Forces-- Medical care.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
United States, Armed Forces, Medical care.
United States.
United States.
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DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION
Number
355
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3/45/0973
Edition
21
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CLASSIFICATION
Class number
UH223
Book number
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H66
2001
OTHER CLASS NUMBERS
Class number
2001
J-800
Class number
UH
223
Book Number
H825ra
2001
PERSONAL NAME - PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITY
Hosek, Susan D.
PERSONAL NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Cecchine, Gary.
CORPORATE BODY NAME - ALTERNATIVE RESPONSIBILITY
United States., Department of Defense., Office of the Secretary of Defense.