The US Healthcare System: Origins, Organization and Opportunities


Chapter Updates & Teaching Materials

 
watchmechanism1.jpg

Chapter 1. Understanding and Managing Complex Healthcare Systems

the-thinker-1090227_1920.jpg

Chapter 2. Determinants of Utilization of Healthcare Services and Products.

DP816772.jpg

Chapter 3.
Introduction to Managerial Epidemiology

618px-Ward_in_the_Hospital_in_Arles.jpg

Chapter 4.
Hospitals and Health Systems

Rembrandt_-_The_Anatomy_Lesson_of_Dr_Nicolaes_Tulp.jpg

Chapter 5.
Healthcare Professionals

LLoyds.jpg

Chapter 6.
Payers

Willem_Einthoven_ECG.jpg

Chapter 7.
Healthcare Technology

640px-Pieter_Bruegel_the_Elder_-_The_Tower_of_Babel_(Vienna)_-_Google_Art_Project_-_edited.jpg

Chapter 8.
Information Technology

Chapter 9.
Quality and Safety

 

Images:
Chapter 1. Tourbillon watch movement
Chapter 2. Auguste Rodin- The Thinker. Musée Rodin, Paris
Chapter 3. Albrecht Dürer- Four Horsemen. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Chapter 4. Vincent van Gogh- Ward in the Hospital in Arles. The Oskar Reinhart Collection "Am Römerholz," Winterthur, Switzerland
Chapter 5. Rembrandt - The Anatomy Lesson of Dr Nicolaes Tulp. Mauritshuis Museum, The Hague
Chapter 6. Thomas Rowlandson and Augustus Pugin- Lloyd’s subsciption room. In: Thomas Rowlandson's ''Microcosm of London'' (1808-11).
Chapter 7. Commercial ECG machine, built in 1911 by the Cambridge Scientific Instrument Company
Chapter 8. Pieter Bruegel the Elder - The Tower of Babel. Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna
Chapter 9. Checklist