Full Description
This book offers new ideas for aligning the American healthcare system to optimize health for everyone. Bridging real-world examples and innovative strategies, it leverages a patient-centric framework to explore healthcare lifecycles and identify primary groups in its ecosystem. Chapters explore critical topics from a comparative global perspective, including the role of government in driving access, the private sector's contribution to quality, and the value of integrating social determinants in policy to achieve health equity. By advocating for public-private collaboration, this work presents actionable solutions to challenges facing the country's modern healthcare system such as resource allocation and long wait times. Designed for healthcare professionals, policymakers, and advocates, it highlights the need for bipartisan approaches, cutting-edge patient care models, and the integration of empathy and culture in healthcare delivery. Addressing affordability, equity, and inclusivity, this book equips readers with a roadmap for reimagining healthcare systems that truly serve everyone.
Contents
1. Moving Toward a Healthy Society; 2. Paying the Most, Getting the Least; 3. Government Drives Access; 4. Private Industry as a Partner in Healthcare; 5. Health Needs to Be About People; Not Politics; 6. The Affordable Care Act: Why is It So Unaffordable?; 7. The Healthcare Debate: Is It Too Focused on Insurance?; 8. Health Equity: Is It Even Possible?; 9. Moving Toward More Inclusive Healthcare Policy; 10. Expanding the Role of Patients in Healthcare; Glossary; References; Index.
