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Health Policy and Ethics
Fincham, Jack
First edition
Jack Fincham - Professor of Pharmacy Practice and Administration, School of Pharmacy, University of Missouri – Kansas City, Missouri, USA
This text provides comprehensive yet concise coverage of international health policy and ethics. It promotes understanding of health policy and its influencers, and explains how policy directly affects health and health care. An in-depth review of pertinent background concepts, current issues, future needs and assessments is provided.
Coverage includes:
- health care systems, policies, impacts and influencers
- health care quality concerns
- justice and access to care
- social and cultural issues
- regulatory actions
- global public health problems.
Health Policy and Ethics is an essential resource for graduate students in pharmacy administration, social pharmacy and health policy, PharmD students, and those involved in health policy decision making.
Health Policy and Ethics is also available as an eBook.
1. Introduction: the growing disparity of excess and deprivation in healthcare
2. Health care systems and health policy
3. Quality issues
4. Justice and access to care
5. Social and cultural issues in healthcare
6. Varying organizational roles
7. Reimbursement issues
8. Health policy and regulatory actions - focus on tobacco
9. Global public health and ethical issues
10. Key policy issues
11. Health impacts and health policy influencers
12. Summary, global health, and global health policy
Sample chapter (1859 KB)Also consider
Textbook
ISBN 978 0 85369 838 8
Published Jun 2011
Paperback
234 x 156mm (320pp)
