Purposeful Population Health Policy

The COVID-19 pandemic, changing legislation, and sweeping reforms to public health and health administration education have made navigating population health policy increasingly complex. Purposeful Population Health Policy offers a timely response with a novel, interdisciplinary framework drawn from population health, clinical epidemiology, law, ethics, and economics for crafting and evaluating policy that actually works within hospitals and health systems. Drawing from over 20 years of experience as a researcher, healthcare executive, and educator having led healthcare teams before, during, and after the COVID-19 pandemic, Dru Bhattacharya proffers ten foundational principles for crafting, implementing, and evaluating population health policies. Attentive to clinical service alignment, social determinants, evaluation methodologies, and trust in high-reliability systems, this book provides real world case studies, original policy models, and interdisciplinary analysis. The result is a unified framework for addressing inequities, managing uncertainty, and driving system change, moving fluidly between innovative theory and an actionable roadmap. Whether learners are clinicians, administrators, researchers, or students, Purposeful Population Health Policy empowers leaders and practitioners to craft effective policies that are robust and responsive to our most pressing population health challenges. Purposeful Population Health Policy is a timely and uncompromising guide for healthcare students and professionals navigating one of the most complex eras in U.S. health history.

Dru Bhattacharya is Adjunct Instructor at Rush University. He is a nationally recognized healthcare executive, population health policy thought leader, researcher, former chair and faculty in programs of medicine, law, nursing, and public health; and former executive at AdvocateHealth and Banner Health. He previously served as Chair of the Department of Population Health Sciences, Associate Professor, and Director of the Master's in Public Health (MPH) program at the University of San Francisco; Director of the MPH health policy program at Loyola University Chicago School of Medicine; and Assistant Professor at SIU School of Medicine.

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