Sara E. Wilensky - Essentials of Health Policy and Law

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Wilensky, Sara E., author. | Teitelbaum, Joel Bern, author.

Title: Essentials of health policy and law / Sara E. Wilensky, JD, PhD,

Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School of

Public Health, The George Washington University, Joel B. Teitelbaum, JD,

LLM, Department of Health Policy and Management, Milken Institute School

of Public Health, The George Washington University.

Description: Fifth edition. | Burlington, Massachusetts: Jones & Bartlett Learning,

[2023] | Includes bibliographical references and index. |

Identifiers: LCCN 2021043276 | ISBN 9781284247459 (paperback)

Subjects: LCSH: Medical policyUnited StatesTextbooks. | BISAC: MEDICAL / Health Policy

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The fifth edition of Essentials of Health Policy and Law describes and analyzes, through the lenses of policy and law, the transformations taking place across the United States healthcare delivery and public health systems. Building on the core content and engaging style of earlier editions, this edition is by necessity influenced by the shifts occurring as a result of the 2020 election cycle, including the ways in which the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (commonly known as the ACA) is being interpreted and implemented.

Professors Sara Wilensky and Joel Teitelbaum have deep experience analyzing and communicating about the ACA and many other aspects of health policy and law, and this edition benefits from their combined 40 years in the field. Capitalizing on this expertise, Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Fifth Edition takes a broad approach to the study of health policy and law and provides a coherent framework for grappling with important healthcare and public health issues in the United States.

Health policies and laws are an inescapable and critical component of our everyday lives. Scores of important issuesfrom the accessibility, cost, and quality of health care; to the countrys preparedness for natural disasters and pandemics; to the effects that structural and social determinants of health have on individual and community health; to the right to make individual decisions about ones own medical carefall under the health policy and law umbrella. Health policies and laws have a strong and lasting effect on the quality of our lives as individuals, and on our safety, health, and well-being as a nation.

Professors Wilensky and Teitelbaum do a marvelous job of succinctly describing the nations policy- and law-making machinery, the always-evolving healthcare and public health systems, the ways in which policy and law affect essential healthcare and public health concerns, and methods of advocacy for those individuals and organizations that aim to promote health through policy and legal reform. Both authors have a unique ability to make complex issues accessible to a wide range of readers, including those without a background in health care or public health. Their training as policy analysts and lawyers shines through as they systematically describe and analyze the complex field of health policy and law, and provide vivid examples to help make sense of it all.