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Healthcare System

Textbooks

• Delivering Healthcare in America: A System Approach (7th Edition) (required)
• Comparative Health Systems (2nd Edition) (optional)
• Global Health Systems: Comparing Strategies for Delivering Health Services (optional)

Websites

• Vital Source
• Jones & Bartlett Learning
• Healthy Algorithms
• Dialysis Facility Compare
• Hospital Compare

Data Sources

• World Health Organization (WHO)
• National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS)
• Centers for Medicare and Medicaids (CMS)

Use Mendeley (free)

• https://www.mendeley.com/
• Multiple tools
  • Web
  • Desktop,
  • Browser plug-in
  • MS Word plug-in

Use GitHub (free)

• Manage and organize your school work
• Manage and organize your professional work
• Manage and organize your personal life

Macro vs Micro Perspective

• Macro is at the community, county, state, and national level - community health, population health, national health
• Micro is at the individual level (person, patient, professional, provider)

When we talk about quality of care or quality of life, we need to differentiate between individual and group. In the context of public health, the focus is on group and quality is typically measured in terms of rate or ratio which is also risk adjusted.

This course is focused on macro level.