Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition [Kindle Edition]
Author: Thomas Bodenheimer Kevin Grumbach | Language: English | ISBN: B007Q126JY | Format: PDF, EPUB
Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition
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Understanding Health Policy, 6e will help you develop a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about health care in the United States, its problems, and the alternatives for managing and solving these problems. Books with free ebook downloads available Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition [Kindle Edition]
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Understand how the healthcare system works – and how you can succeed in it
Covers the 2010 Affordable Care Act
The most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available, Understanding Health Policy provides everything students and professionals need to build a solid foundation on the field’s most critical issues.
Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system—from the concepts behind policy decisions to concrete examples of how they affect patients and professionals alike. Understanding Health Policy, 6e makes otherwise difficult concepts easy to understand—so you can make better decisions, improve outcomes, and enact positive change on a daily basis.
Features:
- Coverage of structure, organization, and financing of the health care system
- Key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples are skillfully interwoven in each chapter to make important issues interesting and understandable
- Clinical vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate how they apply to real-world situations
- Comprehensive list of review questions reinforce what you have learned
Understanding Health Policy, 6e will help you develop a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about health care in the United States, its problems, and the alternatives for managing and solving these problems. Books with free ebook downloads available Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition [Kindle Edition]
- File Size: 7548 KB
- Print Length: 231 pages
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- Publisher: McGraw-Hill Medical; 6 edition (February 15, 2012)
- Sold by: Amazon Digital Services, Inc.
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0071770534
- ISBN-13: 978-0071770538
- ASIN: B007Q126JY
- Text-to-Speech: Enabled
- Lending: Not Enabled
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- #49 in Books > Medical Books > Administration & Medicine Economics > Health Care Administration
As an MD/JD student who was already interested in health policy and advocacy for reform, this book was a terrifically concise and comprehensive look at US Health Policy. It reminded me of much of what I already had learned from following the news and other sources, and introduced me to a plethora of knowledge based in historical and current policy. The organization of the book is superb, making what is a daunting and challenging subject easier to understand by approaching discrete topics while interlacing themes of financing, delivery, and political interests throughout the book. The patient and provider vignettes situated before each section don't seem contrived and provide a good perspective of how policy can affect everyday actors in the health system. The book presents multiple perspectives on health policy, and tells the hard truths when evaluating each, not shying away from criticizing the effects of profit-driven entities in the health care system while still remaining objective compared to many other voices for health reform. The chapter outlining the ways Canada, the UK, Germany, and Japan provide universal insurance coverage was also eye-opening, and should be required reading for anyone holding an opinion about how we should reform the US system. If you are someone who works in health care, has frequent encounters with the medical system, or has the capacity to influence how the system is run, read this book!By JJFoshay
A comprehensive yet readable review of the U.S. healthcare system, and of the various policies that have been implemented and proposed to solve its problems. This is a textbook, and reads like one, though it is definitely more readable that most. Given the complexity of the subject, however, a clearly organized, carefully documented approach is probably a good thing. The authors cover all the bases, they are very clear, and they do not show any overt bias. (All readers might not agree with this: an extensive totting up of the results of our market oriented system does suggest that there is perhaps a better way). Very, very useful to this general reader who simply wanted to improve her understanding of the system.By Anne Mills
