Now includes new bonus e-chapter on COVID- 9 and Health Policy in eBook version.While other texts focus on just one aspect of policy -- theory, philosophy, ethics, history, economics, or analysis - this balanced, cross-disciplinary text explores health policy from all directions for the most thorough examination of policy today. Written with graduate students in mind, this balanced, cross-disciplinary text systematically examines the health policy process by looking at how we got to where we are today, the current realities of policy-making, and how students can influence the policy of tomorrow. Beginning with a discussion of political philosophy and an overview of policy-making theory and U.S. history, this comprehensive text moves onto a thorough examination political theory, the policy process, and comparative national health systems. The book concludes with health policy topical concerns, health policy outcomes, and advocacy. Given its broad, discipline-agnostic approach to the health policy process, Government amp Policy for U.S. Health Leaders is an ideal, well-rounded resource for policy courses across the health professions.Key Features:- Comprehensive, multidisciplinary content targeting all topics associated with health policy development for clinical and non-clinical graduate students and professionals.- Case studies and applied problems, along with chapter-specific discussion questions encourage students to critically think about the material and apply their knowledge. - Focus on new Interprofessional Education (IPE) standards, as well as accreditation needs of graduate programs in health administration, public health, and nursing.- Valuable instructor resources include a test bank, slides in PowerPoint format, an instructor's manual, case studies, and syllabus.
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Raymond J. Higbea, PhD, FACHE is an Associate Professor of Health Administration and Program Director for the Master in Health Administration program. Housed in the School of Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration, Grand Valley State University, he joined GVSU in August 2014.Raymond has 45 years of combined health clinical and administrative experience and has been teaching graduate students since 2006.' Over the past 15 years, Raymond has worked on a variety of community-based solutions to community health and policy needs.' While he teaches several graduate classes, his focal areas are health finance, health economics, health ethics, and public policy.
Gregory Cline, PhD, is the faculty in the Master in Health Administration program at Grand Valley State University. Housed in the School of Public, Nonprofit and Health Administration, he joined GVSU in January 2008.Greg has received research and/or evaluation project funding from the CDC, CMS, HRSA, the W. K. Kellogg Foundation, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Commonwealth Fund and Trinity Health's Call to Care fund. He is the founding editor of the Michigan Journal of Public Health. Greg received his Ph.D. in Political Science from Michigan State University in 2001.
