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Author: Shi Leiyu

Brand: Jones & Bartlett Learning

Edition: 4

Number Of Pages: 402

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Essentials of the U.S. Health Care System, Fourth 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. Designed for undergraduate and graduate students in programs across the health disciplines, 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.
Readers will gain the necessary tools to understand the unique dynamics of the U.S. health care system, including health care delivery, public policy, and the placement of the U.S. health care system within the larger context of global health care.
This fully revised Fourth Edition has been updated with the most current health statistics and information including:
• The status and impact of the Affordable Care Act on all parts of the health care delivery system
• Implementation of Healthy People 2020
• The current U.S. physician workforce and challenges
• New topics such as nanomedicine; clinical decision support systems; HITECH Law; update on remote monitoring; regulation of biologics; and medical technology
• Health disparities in terms of access to care, quality of care, and health outcomes
• Quality initiatives from government and private sectors
• U.S. health care delivery in the context of forces of future change

About the Author

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.

Release Date: 08-12-2015

Package Dimensions: 44x226x572

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