The Nation's Health The Nation's Health, Fifth Edition is an important compendium of articles compiled by two of the nation's preeminent health policy analysts. Drs. Lee and Estes provide a clear view of the factors affecting the health of Americans, emphasizing the precarious circumstances of the nation's public health and health care systems as we move toward... more » the 21st century. This brilliantly edited volume covers areas affecting health and health care, including tobacco, immunization, HIV/AIDS, managed competition, the medical-industrial complex, and rationing of health care. The Nation's Health, Fifth Edition also touches on the important subjects of preventive care, cost of health care, and the relationship between socioeconomic class and health. While this volume is important for those already making public health policy, it also provides the breadth of knowledge essential to students of health policy, health care administration, health care economics, nursing policy and trends, and public health. Physicians, nurses, and health policy scholars and students in schools of public health and departments of health education will find this an invaluable resource. The Nation's Health, Fifth Edition represents the best and most thoughtful treatment of this timely and vitally important subject.« less