Essentials of Health Policy and Law, Third Edition

Joel B. Teitelbaum and Sara E. Wilensky

Transition Guide

TRANSITION GUIDE

Chapter 1. Understanding the Role of and Conceptualizing Health Policy and Law

Chapter 2. Policy and the Policymaking Process

Chapter 3. Law and the Legal System

Chapter 4. Overview of the Health Care System – UPDATED

·  Updated statistics

·  New content on health care access and finance

·  New content on health care workforce

·  New content on comparative health systems

Chapter 5. Overview of the Public Health System

Chapter 6. Individual Rights in Health Care Public Health

Chapter 7. Social Determinants of Health and the Role of Law in Optimizing Health – NEW

·  New content on the social determinants of health

·  New content on law as a social determinant of health

·  New content on the role of Medical-Legal Partnership in combating the social conditions that affect health

Chapter 8. Understanding Health Insurance (was chapter 7)

Chapter 9. Health Economics in a Health Policy Context (was chapter 8)

Chapter 10. National Health Reform (was chapter 9) – UPDATED

·  Updated statistics and boxes

·  New introductory material

·  New discussion questions

·  New content on ACA Exchanges

·  New content on ACA Essential Health Benefits

·  New content on ACA cost sharing requirements and subsidies

·  New content on ACA litigation

Chapter 11. Government Health Insurance Programs: Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare (was chapter 10) – UPDATED

·  Updated statistics

·  New content describing changes to Medicaid resulting from the ACA implementation

·  New content on CHIP

·  New content on Medicare, particularly Part D

Chapter 12. Health Care Quality Policy and Law (was chapter 11) – UPDATED

·  New content on measuring and incentivizing health care quality

·  New content on private payer reform efforts

Chapter 13. Public Health Preparedness Policy (was chapter 12) – UPDATED

·  New content on defining public health preparedness

·  Updated content boxes

·  Updated content on preparedness laws and presidential directives

·  New case study

Chapter 14. The Art of Structuring and Writing a Health Policy Analysis (was chapter 13)

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