Product Description
Health Policy focuses on health policy and financing issues that health professionals and nurses need to know. Starting with issues of health status of the population and vulnerable groups, the book details issues of race, socioeconomics, gender, mental health, homelessness, older women, and social inequality. The emphasis is on the lack of access to care for millions of people who are uninsured and underinsured. It covers the recent changes in health polic… More >>
Health Policy: Crisis and Reform in the U.S. Health Care Delivery System
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#1 by Traci S. on January 26, 2010 - 12:11 pm
This book is comprised of many articles discussing healthcare policy issues. I would have liked to seen some discussing questions afterward as a means of critically thinking but I guess that is what professors are for. Other than that, the text brings up good topics regarding the state of our healthcare system.
Rating: 3 / 5
#2 by Douglas Long on January 26, 2010 - 1:46 pm
I read this book even though I a not yet in an NP or PA program, to get a jump on things. The book was shockingly vacuous. The chapters are a collection of essays from various sources. Some of the chapters are almost passable, others are downright unprofessional.
Rating: 1 / 5
#3 by k. schindler on January 26, 2010 - 1:57 pm
Required reading for a required course. Failed to capture my interest in any of the chapters. But then, so did the subject matter!
Rating: 2 / 5