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Health and Healthcare Systems: A Global View offers a detailed and diverse examination of health systems used across the world. Emphasizing health equity and its global implications, this textbook provides critical historical, economic, and cultural insights integrated into every chapter. Contributions from international experts who have lived and interacted with nation-specific health systems render valuable perspectives on the challenges facing diverse populations within various health systems. The book delves into a broad range of topics, including the etiology and determinants of health and disease globally, innovative approaches in health service delivery, regional health outcomes and disparities, and the far-reaching effects of colonization, global power imbalances, climate change, and the COVID-19 pandemic.Organized into thirteen regional sections, this text presents an extensive analysis of health systems across the globe. It promotes diversity, inclusion, cultural humility, and advocacy skills, preparing students for successful careers in public health and healthcare within the United States and abroad. The countries examined represent a spectrum of economic statuses, geographical settings, demographic profiles, and healthcare system structures, including those with and without universal healthcare coverage. With its rich inclusion of illustrations and relevant global examples, Health and Healthcare Systems provides an engaging and insightful overview of comparative healthcare systems worldwide.Key Features:Discusses challenges related to healthcare structures, financing, coverage, refugee health, sustainability, and climate change across global regions.Highlights innovative efforts by individuals and organizations driving healthcare improvements worldwide.Explores diverse healthcare practices, including traditional, complementary, and alternative medicine (CAM).Examines the historical context and evolving trends in healthcare delivery, covering mental health, maternal and child health, and prevention and treatment of communicable and non-communicable diseases.Qualified instructors have access to expanded Instructor Resources featuring chapter PowerPoints, a Sample Syllabus, Test Banks, an Instructor Manual with learning activities for each chapter, and additional resources to supplement students' dynamic learning and interaction with the text.
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Despite enormous efforts at healthcare improvement, major challenges remain in achieving optimal outcomes, safety, cost, and value. This Element introduces the concept of learning health systems, which have been proposed as a possible solution. Though many different variants of the concept exist, they share a learning cycle of capturing data from practice, turning it into knowledge, and putting knowledge back into practice. How learning systems are implemented is highly variable. This Element emphasises that they are sociotechnical systems and offers a structured framework to consider their design and operation. It offers a critique of the learning health system approach, recognising that more has been said about the aspiration than perhaps has been delivered. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.