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Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 8ed

The most trusted and comprehensive guide to the healthcare system―fully updated with the latest changes and trends

A  Doody’s Core Title for 2020!

Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach provides everything you need to master the healthcare system’s nuances and complexities, work more effectively with other members of healthcare teams, and identify areas in need of change.

Written by practicing primary care physicians who are experts in healthcare policy, this peerless guide covers the entire scope of the U.S. healthcare system and draws on lessons from systems in other nations. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make vital health policy issues interesting and understandable. Whether you’re a student, medical practitioner, or public policy professional, you will come away with a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about our healthcare system, its biggest challenges, and the most effective ways of making it better for everyone.

Features

• • Covers every aspect of healthcare, including finance, organization, and reimbursement
• • Delivers updated information on the Affordable Care Act, Accountable Care Organizations, and system consolidation
• • Provides new insights into the role of social determinants in patient health

• Clinical vignettes highlight key policy issues and clarify difficult concepts

Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction: The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation
Chapter 2: Paying for Health Care
Chapter 3: Access to Health Care
Chapter 4: Paying Health Care Providers
Chapter 5: How Health Care Is Organized—I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care
Chapter 6: How Health Care Is Organized—II: Health Delivery Systems
Chapter 7: The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals
Chapter 8: Painful Versus Painless Cost Control
Chapter 9: Mechanisms for Controlling Costs
Chapter 10: Quality of Health Care
Chapter 11: Prevention of Illness
Chapter 12: Long-Term Care
Chapter 13: Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care
Chapter 14: Health Care in Four Nations
Chapter 15: Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance
Chapter 16: Conflict and Change in America’s Health Care System
Chapter 17: Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges
Chapter 18: Questions and Discussion Topics