Essentials of Health Policy and Law - Couverture souple

Wilensky, Sara E.; Teitelbaum, Joel B.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1284247457 ISBN 13 : 9781284247459

Editeur : Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc, 2022

Synopsis

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 understanding of the ways in which health policies and laws are formulated, implemented, and applied. Thoroughly revised, the Fifth Edition explores the key health policy and legal changes brought about by the Biden Administration and the presently Democrat-controlled Congress. It also addresses the Covid-19 pandemic, and its many devastating and intertwined health, economic, and social consequences. New chapters provide an overview of Public Health and explain Public Health Emergency Preparedness.Updated figures, tables, statistics, and discussion questionsNew textbox icons identify discussion questions, special topics and, technical spotlights to help faculty pick and choose the appropriate contentNew or updated content in the areas of national and state health reform, the healthcare delivery and public health systems, the policymaking process, the ACA's effect on Medicaid, Medicare, and CHIP, individual rights in health care, structural and social drivers of health, and more.New concluding chapter on Health Advocacy teaches readers the art and skill of advocacy.Fully updated Interactive timeline incorporated into the eBook Undergraduate and graduate courses in Health Policy in Public Health, Health Administration, Nursing, Medicine, and Public Policy. (c) 2023 350 pages

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Sara Wilensky, JD, PhD, is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Associate Teaching Professor in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (GW) in Washington, DC.Dr. Wilensky has taught a health policy analysis course and health systems overview course required of all students in the Master of Public Health-Health Policy degree program, as well as the health policy course and a senior seminar course required of all undergraduate students majoring in public health. She has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on numerous health policy research projects relating to a variety of topics, such as Medicaid coverage, access and financing, community health centers, childhood obesity, HIV preventive services, financing of public hospitals, and data sharing barriers and opportunities between public health and Medicaid agencies.As the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education, Dr. Wilensky oversees all aspects of GWSPH majors, minors, and dual-degree programs, sets the strategic vision for the undergraduate programs, and works with campus partners and outside stakeholders to improve undergraduate public health education.Dr. Wilensky is involved with several GW service activities: she has taught a service learning in public health elective course and a service learning senior seminar course in the undergraduate program; she is an affiliated faculty with the Honey W. Nashman Center for Civic Engagement and Public Service; she has been heavily involved in making GW's Writing in the Disciplines program part of the undergraduate major in public health; and she is the advisor to students receiving a master in public policy or a master in public administration with a focus on health policy from GW's School of Public Policy and Public Administration.Prior to joining GW, Dr. Wilensky was a law clerk for federal Judge Harvey Bartle III in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and worked as an associate at the law firm of Cutler and Stanfield, LLP, in Denver, Colorado.

Joel Teitelbaum, JD, LLM, is professor emeritus of public health and law, former director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, and former Co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C.' For 11 years served as vice-chair for academic affairs for the Department of Health Policy and Management.Professor Teitelbaum taught law, graduate, or undergraduate courses on healthcare law, healthcare civil rights, public health law, minority health policy, and long-term care law and policy. He was the first member of the School of Public Health faculty to receive the University-wide Bender Teaching Award, he received the School's Excellence in Teaching Award, and he was a member of the University's Academy of Distinguished Teachers and the School's Academy of Master Teachers. He authored or co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles and reports in addition to many book chapters, policy briefs, and blogs on law and social drivers of health, health equity, civil rights issues in health care, health reform and its implementation, medical-legal partnership, and insurance law and policy, and he delivered more than 100 invited lectures/presentations at leading universities and national conferences. He is co-author of both Essentials of Health Policy and Law (Fifth Edition) and Essentials of Health Justice: Law, Policy, and Structural Change (Second Edition). In 2000, Professor Teitelbaum was corecipient of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, which he used to explore the creation of a new framework for applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the modern healthcare system.Among other organizations, Professor Teitelbaum was a member of Delta Omega, the national honor society recognizing excellence in the field of public health, and the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers. In 2016, during President Obama's second term, Professor Teitelbaum became the first lawyer named to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary's Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives (a.k.a. "Healthy People"), the national agenda aimed at improving the health of all Americans over a 10-year span. He served as a member of the board of advisors of PREPARE, a national advanced care planning organization, and on multiple committees of the American Bar Association: as a liaison to the Task Force on Eviction, Housing Stability, and Equity, as an advisor to the Coordinating Committee on Veterans Benefits and Services, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Public Health Legal Services Research Project in the Center for Human Rights.'

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Jones and Bartlett Publishers, Inc
• Date d'édition: 2022
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1284247457
• ISBN 13: 9781284247459
• Reliure: Broché
• Numéro d'édition: 5
• Nombre de pages: 350
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible