APHA - HEALTH POLICY LAW
Essentials of Health Policy & Law
Organization: | APHA |
Publication Date: | 1 January 2007 |
Status: | inactive |
scope:
Overview:
Essentials of Health Policy and Law provides students of public health with a firm foundation of the basics of American health policy and law.
Given the prominent role played by policy and law in the
health of all Americans, the aim of this book is to help readers
understand the broad context of health policy and law, the
essential policy and legal issues impacting and flowing out of the
health care and public health systems, and the way health policies
and laws are formulated. Think of this textbook as an extended
manual-introductory,
Features:
• Chapters are structured to allow for the teaching of policy and law in tandem or separately.
• Includes a chapter on analytic skills for public health students, including how to write a policy analysis.
• Each chapter includes discussion questions to engage student reflection.
• Accompanied by Essential Readings in Health Policy and Law (available in 2008)-a compilation of carefully selected readings meant to allow for deeper analysis of issues covered in this textbook.
• A complete package of instructor resources.
Check out the companion text, Essential Readings in Health Policy and Law. This compilation of carefully selected readings is meant to allow for deeper analysis of issues covered in Essentials of Health Policy and Law