5th Edition

Health Care Policy and Practice A Biopsychosocial Perspective

By Cynthia Moniz, Stephen Gorin Copyright 2019
386 Pages
by Routledge

386 Pages
by Routledge

386 Pages
by Routledge

In Health Care Policy and Practice: A Biopsychosocial Perspective , Moniz and Gorin guide students through the development of the American health care system: what it is, what the policies are, and how students can influence them. Part I focuses on recent history and reforms; Part II examines the system’s structure and policies; and Part III explores policy analysis and advocacy, and disparities... Read more

PART I. Where We Are and How We Got Here; Chapter 1. Efforts to Achieve Universal Health Care: From Clinton to Trump; Chapter 2. The Early Years: The Road to Employer-Based Coverage, Medicare, and Medicaid; Chapter 3. Public, Community, and Mental Health; Chapter 4. The Cost of Health Care in the U.S. and Strategies for Containment; PART II. Structure and Funding of U.S. Health, Mental Health, and Behavioral Health Care System; Chapter 5. Private Insurance and the Role of Employers; Chapter 6. Medicare; Chapter 7. Medicaid and CHIP; PART III. Policy Practice: Advancing Access to Health and Mental Health Care; Chapter 8. Social Workers and Policy Practice: Affecting Policy and Achieving Policy Action; Chapter 9. Analyzing the Problem: Access to Care; Chapter 10. Analyzing the Problem: Disparities in Health for People of Color; Chapter 11. Analyzing the Problem: Disparities in Health for Women, Children, Older Adults, and the LGBTQ Community; Chapter 12. Advocating for Policies that Improve Health: Models of Health and Health Policy

Biography

Cynthia D. Moniz is Professor Emeritus of Social Work at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.

Stephen H. Gorin is Professor Emeritus of Social Work at Plymouth State University in New Hampshire.