Essentials of Health Policy and
Law Joel B. Teitelbaum, JD, LLM, Department of Health
Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George
Washington University, Sara E. Wilensky, JD, MPP, Department of
Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George
Washington University
Softcover: 225+ pages
ISBN 076373442X
9780763734428
Jones & Bartlett
March 2007 (click the button below for the very best available price)
Essentials of Health Policy and Law provides students of public
health with a firm foundation of the basics of American health
policy and law.
Given the prominent role played by policy and law in the health of
all Americans, the aim of this book is to help readers understand
the broad context of health policy and law, the essential policy and
legal issues impacting and flowing out of the health care and public
health systems, and the way health policies and laws are formulated.
Think of this textbook as an extended manual—introductory, concise,
and straightforward—to the seminal issues in U.S. health policy and
law, and thus as a jumping off point for discussion, reflection,
research, and analysis.
Features
include:
Chapters are structured to allow for the teaching of policy and
law in tandem or separately.
Includes a chapter on analytic skills for public health
students, including how to write a policy analysis.
Each
chapter includes discussion questions to engage student
reflection.
Essential Readings in Health Policy & Law
(available August 2008) makes an ideal accompaniment to this text.
This selection of carefully selected readings is meant to allow for
deeper analysis of issues covered in Essentials of Health Policy
and Law.
Joel B. Teitelbaum, JD, LLM is Associate
Professor and Vice Chair of the Department of Health Policy and the
Managing Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program at The
George Washington University Medical Center’s School of Public
Healthand Health Services (SPHHS). He has taught graduate courses in
health care law, public health law, minority health policy, and
long-term care law and policy, and an undergraduate survey course in
health law, and he has authored or co-authored many articles and
policy papers on civil rights issues in health care, managed care,
and behavioral health care quality.
Professor Teitelbaum is a co-recipient of The Robert Wood Johnson
Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, which he
used to explore the creation of a new framework for applying Title
VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the modern health care system. He
serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Center for the
Study of Race and Bioethics at the DePaul University College of Law,
and as a faculty mentor to Project HEALTH D.C., part of a national
student organization addressing socioeconomic, medical, and
environmental causes of poor health in low-income children. He also
assists in the editing of the Public Health Law Section of Public
Health Reports, the bi-monthly journal of the U.S. Public Health
Service.
Sara E. Wilensky, JD, MPP is an Assistant Research Professor of
Health Policy and the Managing Director of the Geiger Gibson Program
in Community Health Policy at The George Washington University
Medical Center’s School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS).
She co-teaches one of two core health policy analysis courses
required of all health policy majors in the Masters of Public Health
degree program at SPHHS. In addition, she teaches the introductory
health policy course required of all undergraduate public health
majors, and is assisting with the development and teaching of the
final seminar course required of all undergraduate public health
majors.
Professor Wilensky has been the principal investigator, co-principal
investigator, or lead attorney on numerous projects relating to
various aspects of financing and access to community health center
services, public financing and access to HIV preventive care,
financing of public hospitals, and data sharing barriers and
opportunities between Public Health and Medicaid agencies.
