Changing the U.S. health care system: the patient protection and affordable care act -- Improving access to care in America -- Ethnic disparities in health status -- Racial and ethnic disparities in health care -- Multilevel social determinants of health -- Public policies to extend health care coverage -- Private health insurance -- Measuring health care costs and trends -- Containing health care costs -- Promoting pharmaceutical access while controlling prices and expenditures -- Measuring health-related quality of life and other outcomes -- Evaluating the quality of care -- Public release of information on quality -- Health care information systems -- Performance measurement of nursing care -- Long-term services and supports for the elderly population -- Hiv and aids in the twenty-first century -- Health reform for children and families -- Homeless persons -- Changing the US health care delivery system -- Medicare reform -- Public health and clinical care -- Strengthening the safety net -- Ethical issues in public health and health services.