Table of Contents:
  • Understanding the role of and conceptualizing health policy and law
  • Policy and the policymaking process
  • Law and the legal system
  • Overview of the healthcare system
  • What is public health?
  • Individual rights in health care and public health
  • Structural and social drivers of health and the role of law in optimizing health
  • Understanding health insurance
  • Health economics in a health policy context
  • Government health insurance programs : Medicaid, CHIP, and Medicare
  • Health reform and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
  • Healthcare quality policy and law
  • What is public health emergency preparedness?
  • The art of structuring and writing a health policy analysis
  • Federal policy advocacy : advancing policy goals.