Understanding Health Policy, Sixth Edition

Overview

Main description

An engaging and clinically relevant textbook covering the principles and key issues of healthcare

The leading textbook for health policy and systems

Understanding Health Policy is a concise textbook that clearly explains the all major aspects of healthcare, including finance, organization, and reimbursement. The authors carefully weave key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples into chapters that make important health policy issues interesting and understandable. The book features a unique clinical approach, using case examples to highlight key policy issues.

Features

• Updated throughout to reflect the latest changes and events, including the recently enacted health reform act, and revisions in insurance coverage and health care expenditures
• Expanded coverage of global issues in health policy
• Includes "Questions and Discussion Topics" for classroom or individual study