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Essentials of Health Policy and Law (Essential Public Health) 4th Edition, Kindle Edition

by Sara E. Wilensky (Author), Joel B. Teitelbaum (Author) Format: Kindle Edition
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Awarded by Book Authority one of the best Public Health books of all time, Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fourth Edition explores the essential policy and legal issues impacting and flowing out of the healthcare and public health systems and the way health policies and laws are formulated. Concise and straightforward, this textbook is an introduction to the seminal issues in U.S. health policy and law, with a particular focus on national health reform under the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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    Jones & Bartlett Learning
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    March 18, 2019
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    Essential Public Health
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    English
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About the Author

Sara Wilensky, JD, PhD, is the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education and special services faculty for undergraduate education in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University (GW) in Washington, DC.Dr. Wilensky has taught a health policy analysis course and health systems overview course required of all students in the Master of Public Health–Health Policy degree program, as well as the health policy course required of all undergraduate students majoring in public health. She has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on numerous health policy research projects relating to a variety of topics, such as Medicaid coverage, access and financing, community health centers, childhood obesity, HIV preventive services, financing of public hospitals, and data sharing barriers and opportunities between public health and Medicaid agencies.As the Assistant Dean for Undergraduate Education, Dr. Wilensky oversees all aspects of GWSPH majors, minors, and dual-degree programs, sets the strategic vision for the undergraduate programs, and works with campus partners and outside stakeholders to improve undergraduate public health education.Dr. Wilensky is involved with several GW service activities: she has taught a service learning in public health course in the undergraduate program; she has been heavily involved in making GW’s Writing in the Disciplines program part of the undergraduate major in public health; and she is the advisor to students receiving a master in public policy or a master in public administration with a focus on health policy from GW’s School of Public Policy and Public Administration.Prior to joining GW, Dr. Wilensky was a law clerk for federal Judge Harvey Bartle III in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania and worked as an associate at the law firm of Cutler and Stanfield, LLP, in Denver, Colorado.

Joel Teitelbaum, JD, LLM, is professor of public health and law, director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, and Co-Director of the National Center for Medical-Legal Partnership at the George Washington University in Washington, D.C. For 11 years served as vice-chair for academic affairs for the Department of Health Policy and Management. Professor Teitelbaum has taught law, graduate, or undergraduate courses on healthcare law, healthcare civil rights, public health law, minority health policy, and long-term care law and policy. He was the first member of the School of Public Health faculty to receive the University-wide Bender Teaching Award, he has received the School’s Excellence in Teaching Award, and he is a member of the University’s Academy of Distinguished Teachers and the School’s Academy of Master Teachers. He has authored or co-authored dozens of peer-reviewed articles and reports in addition to many book chapters, policy briefs, and blogs on law and social drivers of health, health equity, civil rights issues in health care, health reform and its implementation, medical–legal partnership, and insurance law and policy, and he has delivered more than 100 invited lectures/presentations at leading universities and national conferences. In addition to Essentials of Health Justice, he is co-author of Essentials of Health Policy and Law (Fifth Edition). In 2000, Professor Teitelbaum was corecipient of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, which he used to explore the creation of a new framework for applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the modern healthcare system. Among other organizations, Professor Teitelbaum is a member of Delta Omega, the national honor society recognizing excellence in the field of public health, and the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers. In 2016, during President Obama’s second term, Professor Teitelbaum became the first lawyer named to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Secretary’s Advisory Committee on National Health Promotion and Disease Prevention Objectives (a.k.a. “Healthy People”), the national agenda aimed at improving the health of all Americans over a 10-year span. He serves as a member of the board of advisors of PREPARE, a national advanced care planning organization, and on multiple committees of the American Bar Association: as a liaison to the Task Force on Eviction, Housing Stability, and Equity, as an advisor to the Coordinating Committee on Veterans Benefits and Services, and as a member of the Advisory Board of the Public Health Legal Services Research Project in the Center for Human Rights.

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  • ASIN ‏ : ‎ B07NS4K6TM
  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Jones & Bartlett Learning; 4th edition (March 18, 2019)
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ March 18, 2019
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • File size ‏ : ‎ 26476 KB
  • Text-to-Speech ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Screen Reader ‏ : ‎ Supported
  • Enhanced typesetting ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • X-Ray ‏ : ‎ Not Enabled
  • Word Wise ‏ : ‎ Enabled
  • Sticky notes ‏ : ‎ On Kindle Scribe
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 422 pages
  • Customer Reviews:
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Lydia
5.0 out of 5 stars Good read
Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2021
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Using the textbook for an NP Health policy class. Very informative and nice straightforward overview of healht policy topics and principles.
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Bob Saget
5.0 out of 5 stars Great book
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2021
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Quality book. Establishes the policies that determine the quality care and ethics of the Us healthcare system.
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Erika
3.0 out of 5 stars Keep searching
Reviewed in the United States on May 22, 2020
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This is listed as a hardcovered book but, it is not. It’s a soft cover/ paperback book. You may be able to find it cheaper. Definitely not worth $100
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SaraW.
5.0 out of 5 stars Health Care Policy and Law
Reviewed in the United States on March 2, 2020
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Great intro and basic info for Health care policy and law. Eady read and understand policy building and writing.
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Lucy Dollinger
5.0 out of 5 stars Good textbook
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2019
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Good textbook. Required for class. Easy read. 5/5
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5.0 out of 5 stars Good textbook
Reviewed in the United States on November 13, 2019
Good textbook. Required for class. Easy read. 5/5
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MA
1.0 out of 5 stars Not as advertised! Not hardcover!!
Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2021
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Not as advertised, it’s not hardcover.
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Randall Bierman
1.0 out of 5 stars This is a Friggen rip off
Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2019
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Amazon ripped me off! This is a 61 page add on to the book I really need for my class. DAMN
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A. Severson
1.0 out of 5 stars Not what I thought I was ordering
Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2019
The description and ISBN of this book match the book I was searching for, but the actual book was just a 61 page ACA update and NOT a 370 text book.
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