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Publisher's Note: Products purchased from Third Party sellers are not guaranteed by the publisher for quality, authenticity, or access to any online entitlements included with the product. The most trusted and comprehensive guide to the healthcare system—fully updated with the latest changes and trends A Doody's Core Title for 2020! Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach provides everything you need to master the healthcare system's nuances and complexities, work more effectively with other members of healthcare teams, and identify areas in need of change. Written by practicing primary care physicians who are experts in healthcare policy, this peerless guide covers the entire scope of the U.S. healthcare system and draws on lessons from systems in other nations. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make vital health policy issues interesting and understandable. Whether you're a student, medical practitioner, or public policy professional, you will come away with a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about our healthcare system, its biggest challenges, and the most effective ways of making it better for everyone. Features • Covers every aspect of healthcare, including finance, organization, and reimbursement • Delivers updated information on the Affordable Care Act, Accountable Care Organizations, and system consolidation • Provides new insights into the role of social determinants in patient health • Clinical vignettes highlight key policy issues and clarify difficult concepts Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach is a book about health policy as well as individual patients and caregivers and how they interact with each other and with the overall health system. We, the authors, are practicing primary care physicians-one in a public hospital and clinic and the other, for many years, in a private practice. We are also analysts of our nation's health care system. In one sense, these two sides of our lives seem quite separate. When treating a patient's illness, health expenditures as a percentage of gross domestic product or variations in surgical rates between one city and another seem remote if not irrelevant-but they are neither remote nor irrelevant. Health policy affects the patients we see on a daily basis. Managed care referral patterns determine to which specialist we can send a patient; the coverage gaps for outpatient medications in the Medicare benefit package affects how we prescribe medications for our elderly patients; and differences in access to care between families on Medicaid and those with private coverage influences which patients end up seeing one of us in the private sector over the other in a public hospital. 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Expert Practitioners In Both The Public And Private Healthcare Sectors, The Authors Cover The Entire Scope Of Our Healthcare System. They Carefully Weave Key Principles, Descriptions, And Concrete Examples Into Chapters That Make Important Health Policy Issues Interesting And Understandable. Understanding Health Policy: A Clinical Approach, 8th Edition Title Page Copyright Contents Preface Chapter 1 Introduction: The Paradox of Excess and Deprivation Chapter 2 Paying for Health Care Chapter 3 Access to Health Care Chapter 4 Paying Health Care Providers Chapter 5 How Health Care Is Organized-I: Primary, Secondary, and Tertiary Care Chapter 6 How Health Care Is Organized-II: Health Delivery Systems Chapter 7 The Health Care Workforce and the Education of Health Professionals Chapter 8 Painful Versus Painless Cost Control Chapter 9 Mechanisms for Controlling Costs Chapter 10 Quality of Health Care Chapter 11 Prevention of Illness Chapter 12 Long-Term Care Chapter 13 Medical Ethics and Rationing of Health Care Chapter 14 Health Care in Four Nations Chapter 15 Health Care Reform and National Health Insurance Chapter 16 Conflict and Change in America's Health Care System Chapter 17 Conclusion: Tensions and Challenges Chapter 18 Questions and Discussion Topics Index 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.