Understand how the healthcare system works - and how you can succeed in it

Covers the 2010 Affordable Care Act

A Doody's Core Title for 2015!

The most trusted and comprehensive guide to healthcare available, Understanding Health Policy provides everything students and professionals need to build a solid foundation on the field's most critical issues.

Expert practitioners in both the public and private healthcare sectors, the authors cover the entire scope of our healthcare system-from the concepts behind policy decisions to concrete examples of how they affect patients and professionals alike. Understanding Health Policy, 6e makes otherwise difficult concepts easy to understand-so you can make better decisions, improve outcomes, and enact positive change on a daily basis.

Features:

• Coverage of structure, organization, and financing of the health care system
• Key principles, descriptions, and concrete examples are skillfully interwoven in each chapter to make important issues interesting and understandable
• Clinical vignettes clarify difficult concepts and demonstrate how they apply to real-world situations
• Comprehensive list of review questions reinforce what you have learned

Understanding Health Policy, 6e will help you develop a clearer, more systematic way of thinking about health care in the United States, its problems, and the alternatives for managing and solving these problems.