Application of Systems Thinking to Health Policy & Public Health Ethics Public Health and Private Illness /

• Main Author: Battle-Fisher, Michele (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2015.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Public Health,
• Subjects: Medicine.; Ethics.; Public health.; Medical ethics.; Medicine & Public Health.; Public Health.; Theory of Medicine/Bioethics.

This book looks at health policy through the lens of public versus private: population health versus the somatic, social, or emotional experiences of a patient. Rather than presenting policy/ethics as overly technical, this book takes a novel approach of framing public and private health in terms of...

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Justice League of Health: Flexing Policy's Muscle
• Health Systems and Policy as the "Price is Right"
• Public versus Private: Stop Stepping on My Toes
• The Sting of Public Health
• Is it Yours, Mine and Ours?
• Building on What We've Started
• Conclusion.