Understanding the fundamentals of health policy enables healthcare leaders to help improve it. In Introduction to Health Policy, Dr. Leiyu Shi provides an accessible overview of how health policy is created and analyzed. As a prominent authority in the field, he provides insight into domestic and international policy issues related to healthcare financing, delivery, and diverse populations.
Each chapter includes real-world cases from various settings, additional feature content that provides context, key points of clarification, and discussion questions. The chapters on healthcare research delve into numerous examples of commonly used quantitative and qualitative methods.
This revised third edition contains a new case in each chapter, as well as new and updated coverage of: The Affordable Care Act and President Biden’s healthcare reforms; The Healthy People 2030 initiative; Health equity and racial justice; Global health policies and development
This primer prepares future leaders to address health policy issues that will affect the patients in their organizations while also contributing to the creation of a better healthcare system overall.
- Chapter 1 - Overview of Health Policy
- Chapter 2 - Federal Health Policymaking
- Chapter 3 - Health Policymaking at the State and Local Levels and in the Private Sector
- Chapter 4 - International Health Policymaking
- Chapter 5 - Health Policy Related to Financing and Delivery
- Chapter 6 - Health Policy for Diverse Populations
- Chapter 7 - International Health Policy Issues
- Chapter 8 - Overview of Health Policy Research
- Chapter 9 - Health Policy Research Methods
- Chapter 10 - An Example of Health Policy Research
Leiyu Shi, DrPH, is professor of health policy and health services research in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins University Bloomberg School of Public Health. He is also director of the Johns Hopkins Primary Care Policy Center and director of the Johns Hopkins Asia Pacific Center for Hospital Management and Leadership Research. Dr. Shi serves as an editor-in-chief of the International Journal for Equity in Health. He has authored 11 textbooks and more than 300 scientific journal articles.
