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| Prologue | |
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| Series Page | |
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| Preface | |
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| Acknowledgments | |
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| About the Authors | |
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| Overview of Policy and Law in the United States | |
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| Introduction: Understanding the Role of and Conceptualizing Health Policy and Law | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Role of Policy and Law in Health Care and Public Health | |
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| Conceptualizing Health Policy and Law | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Policy and the Policymaking Process | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Defining Policy | |
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| Public Policymaking Structure and Process | |
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| The Health Bureaucracy | |
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| Interest Groups | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Law and the Legal System | |
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| Introduction | |
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| The Role of Law | |
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| The Definition and Sources of Law | |
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| Key Features of the Legal System | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Essential Issues in Health Policy and Law | |
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| Understanding Health Insurance | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Health Insurance Coverage | |
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| A Brief History of the Rise of Health Insurance in the United States | |
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| How Health Insurance Operates | |
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| Managed Care | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Health Economics in a Health Policy Context | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Health Economics Defined | |
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| Economic Basics: Demand | |
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| Economic Basics: Supply | |
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| Economic Basics: Markets | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Government Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid, SCHIP, and Medicare | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Medicaid | |
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| State Children's Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) | |
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| Medicare | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| The Uninsured and Health Reform | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Characteristics of the Uninsured | |
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| The Importance of Health Insurance Coverage to Health Status | |
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| Ways to Count the Costs of Uninsurance | |
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| Safety Net Providers | |
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| The Difficulty of Reform in the United States | |
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| Unsuccessful Attempts to Pass National Health Insurance Reform | |
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| State Health Reform | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Individual Rights in Health Care and Public Health | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Background | |
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| Individual Rights and Health Care: A Global Perspective | |
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| Individual Rights and the Health Care System | |
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| Individual Rights in a Public Health Context | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Health Care Quality Policy and Law | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Medical Errors as a Public Health Concern | |
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| Promoting Health Care Quality Through the Standard of Care | |
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| Tort Liability of Hospitals, Insurers, and Managed Care Organizations | |
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| Federal Preemption of State Liability Laws Under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA) | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Basic Skills in Health Policy Analysis | |
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| The Art of Structuring and Writing a Health Policy Analysis | |
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| Introduction | |
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| Policy Analysis Overview | |
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| Structuring a Policy Analysis | |
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| Conclusion | |
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| Index | |