Essentials of health policy and law

• Main Authors: Wilensky, Sara E. (Author), Teitelbaum, Joel Bern (Author)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Burlington, MA Jones & Bartlett Learning 2022
• Edition: FIFTH EDITION
• Series: Essential Public Health
• Subjects: Health Policy > legislation & jurisprudence > United States; Insurance, Health > legislation & jurisprudence > United States; Social Determinants of Health > United States; Health Care Reform > United States
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Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fifth Edition provides students of public health, medicine, nursing, public policy, and health administration with an introduction to a broad range of seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, analytic frameworks for studying these complex issues, and an unde...

Table of Contents:

• Setting the Stage: An Overview of Health Policy and Law - Understanding the Role of Conceptualizing Health Policy and Law - Policy and the Policymaking Process - Law and the Legal System - Overview of the Healthcare System - What is Public Health - Essentials Issues in Health Policy and Law - Individual Rights in Health Care and Public Health - Structural and Social Drivers of Health and the Role of Law in Optimizing Health - Understanding Health Insurance - Health Economics in Health Policy Context - Government Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare - Health Reform and the Pateint Protection and Affordable Care Act - Healthcare Quality Policy and Law - What is Public Health Emergency Preparedness? - Basic Skills in Health Policy Analysis - The Art of Structuring and Writing a Health Policy Analysis - Federal Policy Advocacy: Advancing Policy Goals - Glossary - Index