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This AJN award-winning textbook helps readers understand and critically assess the U.S. health care system and policies. With a focus on the prevalence of disparities in health and health care, the book reviews the historical evolution and organization of our health care system. Several social justice theories are used to critically evaluate current U.S. health care systems and policies, providing readers with various perspectives of the field. Extensive coverage of our health care system's structures, finances, and performance on a variety of population health indicators provides the necessary background, frameworks, and principles through which the adequacy of alternative health care system financing strategies can be analyzed.
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This book is an ideal text for graduate courses in health care policy or disparities in the U.S. health care system in schools of social work, public health, nursing, medicine, and public policy and administration.
Gunnar Almgren, PhD, is Professor of Social Work and Social Welfare at the University of Washington, Seattle Campus. Prior to that, he was a social work practitioner and administrator in not-for-profit and public health care systems for 15 years. His teaching and research interests include health care policy, social welfare policy, poverty and inequality, safety-net health care systems, and the determinants of disparities in health and in health care. He is also the co-author of The Safety-Net Health Care System: Health Care at the Margins (Springer Publishing, 2012).
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