Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System

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.