Health Systems Science 2nd Edition

Master Health Systems Science: Your Guide to a Better Healthcare Future

This groundbreaking textbook, the first of its kind, brings you fully up to date with the key issues and solutions in the emerging field of Health Systems Science. Explore how healthcare is delivered, how professionals collaborate, and how the system can be improved to transform patient care and ensure greater patient safety.

Key Features:

• Comprehensive Coverage: A practical guide to all factors influencing patient well-being, the structures and processes of the health system, and societal factors.
• New and Expanded Content: Includes new content on systems thinking, ethics, and legal issues, as well as additional exercises and expanded information on the patient experience and private practice.
• Patient Improvement Strategies: Learn about strategies that incorporate checklists, information technology, and team training.
• Consistent Learning Template: A consistent chapter template provides clear coverage of each topic, including learning objectives, a chapter outline, core content, a summary, and questions for reflection.
• Collaborative Development: Developed by a leading medical education consortium and authored by a team of experts from member schools.
• Enhanced eBook: A complimentary enhanced eBook allows you to access all of the text, figures, and references from the book on a variety of devices.