Overview
- Explores health policy through the lens of public health vs. private health
- Popular, cultural examples and nontechnical tone make political philosophy and health policy topics accessible to a student audience
- Applies systems and complexity thinking to health system reform
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health (BRIEFSPUBLIC, volume 0)
Part of the book sub series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health Ethics (BRIEFSPUHEAET)
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Systems Within Health Policy and Ethics
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Applications of Modeling to Health Policy
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A Brief Exploration of the Complexity of Health Disparities (As Humanistically as Possible)
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Reviews
“This interdisciplinary overview of current public health issues focuses on healthcare systems, infectious disease, health disparities, healthcare policy, policy development, and the effects of those policies. … The audience is anyone interested in public health and healthcare policy. … This is a useful book for gaining a basic understanding of the multifaceted features of public health policies and their implications.” (Tyler Zahrli, Doody’s Book Reviews, December, 2015)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics
Book Subtitle: Public Health and Private Illness
Authors: Michele Battle-Fisher
Series Title: SpringerBriefs in Public Health
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-12203-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-12202-1Published: 04 December 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-12203-8Published: 14 November 2014
Series ISSN: 2192-3698
Series E-ISSN: 2192-3701
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 100
Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations
Topics: Public Health, Theory of Medicine/Bioethics, Ethics