Health Policy: Print Textbooks

Introduction -- Genetic science and technology -- Fundamentals of genetic epidemiology -- Genetics in medicine -- Genetics in health services -- Ethical, legal, and social implications of genetics -- Policy implications.

Major characteristics of U.S. health care delivery -- Foundations of U.S. health care delivery -- Historical overview of U.S. health care delivery -- Health care providers and professionals -- Technology and its effects -- Financing and reimbursement methods -- Outpatient services and primary care -- Hospitals -- Managed care and integrated systems -- Long-term care services -- Populations with special health needs -- Cost, access, and quality -- Health policy -- The future of health services delivery.

Introduction : understanding the role of and conceptualizing health policy and law -- Policy and the policymaking process -- Law and the legal system -- Understanding health insurance -- Health economics in a health policy context -- Government health insurance programs: Medicaid, SCHIP, and Medicare -- The uninsured and health reform -- Individual rights in health care and public health -- Health care quality policy and law -- The art of structuring and writing a health policy analysis.