Essentials Of The U.S. Health Care System
4th Edition
Published on 8. December 2015
Book
Hardback
402 pages
978-1-284-10055-6 (ISBN)
Description
Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System, Fourth Edition is a clear and concise distillation of the major topics covered in the best-selling Delivering Health Care in America by the same authors. Designed for undergraduate and graduate students in programs across the health disciplines, Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System is a reader-friendly, well organized resource that covers the major characteristics, foundations, and future of the U.S. health care system. The text clarifies the complexities of health care organization and finance and presents a solid overview of how the various components fit together.
Readers will gain the necessary tools to understand the unique dynamics of the U.S. health care system, including health care delivery, public policy, and the placement of the U.S. health care system within the larger context of global health care.
This fully revised Fourth Edition has been updated with the most current health statistics and information including:
* The status and impact of the Affordable Care Act on all parts of the health care delivery system
* Implementation of Healthy People 2020
* The current U.S. physician workforce and challenges
* New topics such as nanomedicine; clinical decision support systems; HITECH Law; update on remote monitoring; regulation of biologics; and medical technology
* Health disparities in terms of access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes
* Quality initiatives from government and private sectors
* U.S. health care delivery in the context of forces of future change
Readers will gain the necessary tools to understand the unique dynamics of the U.S. health care system, including health care delivery, public policy, and the placement of the U.S. health care system within the larger context of global health care.
This fully revised Fourth Edition has been updated with the most current health statistics and information including:
* The status and impact of the Affordable Care Act on all parts of the health care delivery system
* Implementation of Healthy People 2020
* The current U.S. physician workforce and challenges
* New topics such as nanomedicine; clinical decision support systems; HITECH Law; update on remote monitoring; regulation of biologics; and medical technology
* Health disparities in terms of access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes
* Quality initiatives from government and private sectors
* U.S. health care delivery in the context of forces of future change
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Edition
4th Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Sudbury
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Weight
595 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-284-10055-6 (9781284100556)
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Essentials Of The U.S. Health Care System
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Persons
Dr.'Leiyu Shi is Professor of health policy and management from Johns'Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of Health'Policy and Management. He received his doctoral education from University of California'Berkeley majoring in health policy and services research. He also has a masters'in business administration focusing on finance. Academically he serves as Director of the Johns Hopkins-Tsinghua Dr.PH Program for Healthcare Management and Leadership and Director of the Asia-Pacific Rim Dr.PH Program. In terms of research, he serves as Director of Johns Hopkins Primary Care Policy'Center and Director of Johns Hopkins Asia-Pacific Center for Hospital Management and Leadership Research. Dr. Shi's research and practice focus on'primary care, hospitals, health care systems, community health centers, health disparities, and vulnerable'populations. Dr. Shi'is also one of the developers of the Johns Hopkins Primary Care'Assessment Tools that have been widely used internationally to measure primary'health care performance at the individual, practice, and system levels. Dr.'Shi is the author of thirteen textbooks and over 300 scientific journal'articles. He is named by Thomson Reuters in 2014 as among the top cited (and therefore most influential) scientists in the world in the area of Social'Science general.
Dr. Singh teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in health care delivery, policy, finance, and management in the School of Business and Economics and in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University-South Bend. He has authored/coauthored four books and has published in peer-reviewed journals. Before pursuing an academic career, he spent over 15 years in the long-term care industry and held positions of administrator, regional manager, vice president, and consultant. He was awarded the long-term care research award by the Foundation of American College of Health Care Administrators in 1995.
Dr. Singh teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in health care delivery, policy, finance, and management in the School of Business and Economics and in the Department of Political Science at Indiana University-South Bend. He has authored/coauthored four books and has published in peer-reviewed journals. Before pursuing an academic career, he spent over 15 years in the long-term care industry and held positions of administrator, regional manager, vice president, and consultant. He was awarded the long-term care research award by the Foundation of American College of Health Care Administrators in 1995.