Ethics in Health Services and Policy: A Global Approach, by Dean M. Harris, ISBN: 978-0-470-53106-8, Paperback, 304 pages, April 2011, Companion web site: www.josseybass.com/go/deanharris
Description: Applying a comparative, or multicultural, approach, the book compares different perspectives on ethical issues in various countries and cultures, such as informed consent, withholding or withdrawing treatment, physician-assisted suicide, reproductive health issues, research with human subjects, the right to health care, rationing of limited resources, and health system reform. Applying a transnational, or cross-border, approach, the book analyzes ethical issues that arise from the movement of patients and health professionals across national borders, such as medical tourism and transplant tourism, ethical obligations to provide care for undocumented aliens, and the "brain drain" of health professionals from developing countries. The book uses methods of activity-based learning, and includes selected readings which provide diverse perspectives of people from different countries and cultures in their own words. Instructor support materials include PowerPoint slides for every chapter, model answers to the activities, suggestions for class discussion, and an exam bank.)
Health Care in the United States: Organization, Management, and Policy, by Howard P. Greenwald, ISBN: 978-0-7879-9547-8, Hardcover, 400 pages, April 2010. Companion web site: http://www.josseybass.com/WileyCDA/WileyTitle/productCd-0787995479.html
Description: Placing special emphasis on recent health care reform legislation and its implications for the future, this much-needed textbook combines an explanation of population health with a comprehensive introduction to health services delivery. Showing how the U.S. health services system is organized, managed, financed, and evaluated, the book is rich with numerous examples and tables that help to illustrate key concepts, trends, and features of the system. The book explains the ongoing dilemmas that face the health care system and highlights health and disease in the modern world, the fundamentals of epidemiology, health behavior, along with key innovations in financing and delivery, explaining the outcomes of cost sharing, HMO enrollment, and rationing of services. Instructors materials include PowerPoints, test banks, and model answers for discussion questions contained within chapters.
For more information on either book or to request an academic examination copy of either of these titles, write to publichealth@wiley.com.
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