Health Policy and Ethics First edition

This text provides comprehensive, concise coverage of international health policy and ethics. It explains health policy and its influencers, and how policy directly affects health and health care. The book has an in-depth review of pertinent background concepts, current issues, future needs and assessments.

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