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Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System
Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System
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Product details
- ISBN 9781284235104
- Weight: 482g
- Publication Date: 01 Aug 2022
- Publisher: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
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Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System, Sixth 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. Written with the undergraduate in mind, 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.
Key Features:
- Updated new data throughout. Tables, charts, figures, and text are all based on the latest data.
- New sections on the prospects of healthcare reform under the Biden Administration and patient advocacy organizations.
- Coverage of COVID, including the effects on U.S. hospitals, impact of vulnerable populations, implications for the future of health care delivery, etc.
- Expanded coverage of nanomedicine, AI in health informatics, cybersecurity of data, and more.
- Latest on ACA, including its effects on insurance, access, and cost.
- New sections on payments for quality and cost savings; Payment Driven Payment Model (PDPM), payments for rehabilitation therapy.
- Updates on forces of future change; cost, coverage and access dilemmas; and expectations of health reform in the broader economic context.
- Navigate eBook access (included with each print text) provides online or offline access to the digital text from a computer, tablet, or mobile device.
Dr. Leiyu Shi is Professor of health policy and management from JohnsHopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health Department of HealthPolicy and Management. He is also Director of Johns Hopkins Primary Care PolicyCenter. He serves as Co-Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal for Equity in Health. He received his doctoral education from University of CaliforniaBerkeley majoring in health policy and services research. He also has a mastersin business administration focusing on finance. Dr. Shi’s research and practice focus onprimary care, hospitals, health care systems, community health centers, health disparities, and vulnerablepopulations. He has conducted extensive studies about the association betweenprimary care and health outcomes, particularly on the role of primary care inmediating the adverse impact of income inequality on health outcomes. Dr. Shiis also one of the developers of the Johns Hopkins Primary CareAssessment Tools that have been widely used internationally to measure primaryhealth care performance at the individual, practice, and system levels. Dr. Shi has consulted extensively for hospitals, health care systems, and international agencies. He is a well-known expert on innovative practices and systems change. Dr.Shi is the author of twelve textbooks and over 250 scientific journalarticles. 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 SocialScience 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.
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