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Essential Readings in Health Policy and Law

Author(s): Joel B. Teitelbaum, JD, LLM, Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University
Sara E. Wilensky, JD, PhD, Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University
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  • ISBN-13: 9780763738518
  • ISBN-10:0763738514
  • Paperback    454 pages      © 2009
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This compilation of carefully selected readings is meant to allow for deeper analysis of the issues covered in the companion textbook, Essentials of Health Policy and Law, yet also serves as an excellent complement to any text on health policy, or as a stand-alone text. 

 

The book is divided into five broad parts:  Part 1 provides a basic overview of public health; Part 2 covers topics in health care quality; Part 3 centers on the intersection of policy and law with medicine and ethics; Part 4 offers several resources on the topic of health system reform; finally, Part 5 is a series of resources collectively called “Tools for Health Policy Analysis”. 

 

Featuring thought-provoking perspectives of individual authors, policymakers, and judges that span the spectrum of political and social thought, this collection of readings will stimulate classroom discussion and reflection.
 
Features:

  • Each grouping of readings is introduced by framing commentary and questions.
  • Includes practical articles that describe the methods—and potential pitfalls—of policy analysis. 
  • Offers examples of the administrative regulations, informal government memoranda, and budget proposals that serve as important instruments in a policymaker’s toolbox.

It is an outstanding addition to Jones and Bartlett's Essential Public Health series.

Available as a bundle with Essentials of Health Policy and Law.

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CONTENTS

Part 1. Overview of Public Health
Introduction
1. Bernard Turnock, “What is Public Health?” from Essentials of Public Health
2. Larry Gostin et al., “The Law and the Public’s Health: The Foundations” from Law in Public Health Practice
3. Case law: Jacobson v. Massachusetts (validity of state mandatory vaccine law)
4. Case law: DeShaney v. Winnebago County Social Services Department (public welfare and the “negative Constitution”)
5. Case law: Town of Castle Rock, Colorado v. Gonzales (public welfare and the “negative Constitution”)
6. Executive Summary from The Future of the Public’s Health in the 21st Century

Part 2. Health Care Quality
Introduction
7. Executive Summary from Crossing the Quality Chasm
8. Elizabeth McGlynn et al., “The Quality of Health Care Delivered to Adults in the United States” from New England Journal of Medicine
9. Summary from Unequal Treatment
10. Case law: Canterbury v. Spence (patient-oriented standard of informed consent)
11. Case law: Jones v. Chicago (managed care liability for institutional negligence)

Part 3. Policy, Law, Medicine, and Ethics
Introduction
12. Carol Levine, “Analyzing Pandora’s Box: The History of Bioethics” from The Ethics of Bioethics
13. James Childress et al., “Public Health Ethics: Mapping the Terrain”
14. Case law: Roe v. Wade (constitutional right to abortion)
15. Case law: Planned Parenthood v. Casey (validity of Pennsylvania abortion statute)
16. The Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act
17. Case law: Gonzales v. Carhart (constitutionality of the Partial Birth Abortion Ban Act)
18. Case law: Cruzan v. Director, Missouri Department of Health (constitutional right to withdraw life-sustaining treatment)
19. Case law: Washington v. Glucksberg (physician-assisted suicide)
20. Case law: Vacco v. Quill (physician-assisted suicide)
21. The Oregon Death With Dignity Act statute, regulations, and state’s report on its use
22. Case law: Gonzalez v. Oregon (physician-assisted suicide)

Part 4. Rethinking the Public Health and Health Care Systems
Introduction
23. James Morone, “Morality, Politics, and Health Policy” from Policy Challenges in Modern Health Care
24. Thomas Rice, “Can Markets Give Us the Health System We Want?”
25. Sara Wilensky and Dylan Roby, “Health Centers and Health Insurance: Complements, Not Alternatives”
26. Bruce Siegel, Marsha Regenstein, and Peter Shin, “Health Reform and the Safety Net: Big Opportunities; Major Risks”
27. Sara Collins, Karen Davis, and Jennifer Kriss, “ An Analysis of Leading Congressional Health Care Bills, 2005-2007: Part 1, Insurance Coverage
28. State Coverage Initiative, “State of the States: Building Hope, Raising Expectations”
29. Lawrence Brown, “Comparing Health Systems in Four Countries: Lessons for the United States”
30. Karen Davis, invited testimony to the U.S. Senate Health, Education, Labor and Pension Committee, “Learning from high performance health systems around the globe”

Part 5. Tools for Health Policy Analysis
Introduction
31. Gail Wilensky, “Framing the Public Policy Question: Financial Incentives for Efficiency and Effectiveness”
32. Selections from Department of Health and Human Services Regulations on Standards for Privacy and Individually Identifiable Health Information as required by the Health Information Portability and Accountability Act
33. State Medicaid Director Letter concerning the Deficit Reduction Act of 2005
34. Department of Health and Human Services 2008 Budget in Brief concerning Medicaid and SCHIP
35. Congressional Budget Office Cost Estimate concerning the Improving Head Start Act of 2007
36. New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene Board of Health, Amendment to the New York City Health Code, concerning phasing out artificial trans-fat in New York City food services establishments
37. Edwin Park and Matt Broaddus, “SCHIP Reuthorization: President’s Budget Would Provide Less than Half the Funds that States Need to Maintain SCHIP Enrollment.”


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Joel B. Teitelbaum, JD, LLM-Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University

 

Joel Teitelbaum, J.D., LL.M., is Associate Professor and Vice Chair for Academic Affairs in the Department of Health Policy, and Managing Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, at the George Washington University (GW) School of Public Health and Health Services (SPHHS) in Washington, D.C.  In his role as Vice Chair for Academic Affairs, Professor Teitelbaum provides comprehensive oversight and coordination of all the Department’s academic activities, including graduate degree programs, faculty recruitment, curriculum development, faculty teaching development and classroom evaluation processes, and faculty and student support services.  As Managing Director of the Hirsh Health Law and Policy Program, he provides day-to-day oversight of a program designed to foster an interdisciplinary approach to the study of health law, health policy, health care, and public health through educational and research opportunities for law students, health professions students, and practicing lawyers.

Professor Teitelbaum teaches a graduate health services law course, a graduate health care civil rights course, and an undergraduate survey course on health law.  He has also taught courses on public health law, minority health policy, and long-term care law and policy.  In 2009 he became the first member of the SPHHS faculty to win the GW-wide Bender Teaching Award.  He also received an SPHHS Excellence in Teaching Award for his graduate coursework and in 2007 he was inducted into the ASPH/Pfizer Public Health Academy of Distinguished Teachers.

Professor Teitelbaum has authored or co-authored many articles, book chapters, policy papers, and reports on civil rights issues in health care, insurance law and policy, health reform and its implementation, and behavioral health care quality, and he has directed or managed many health law and policy research projects.  In 2000 he was co-recipient of The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research, which he used to explore the creation of a new framework for applying Title VI of the 1964 Civil Rights Act to the modern health care system.

            He is heavily involved in GW service activities: Among other things, he has served as Chair of the Medical Center Faculty Senate’s Executive Committee; Chair of the SPHHS Curriculum Committee; Chair of the Department’s Appointments, Promotion, and Tenure Committee; and Co-Chair of the committee that created and implemented GW’s Bachelor of Science degree in public health.  He is also a faculty advisor to Health Leads D.C. (formerly Project HEALTH).

Professor Teitelbaum is a member of Delta Omega, the national honor society recognizing excellence in the field of public health; the American Constitution Society for Law and Policy; the American Society of Law, Medicine, and Ethics; and the Society for American Law Teachers.

 

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Sara E. Wilensky, JD, PhD-Department of Health Policy, School of Public Health and Health Services, George Washington University


Sara Wilensky, J.D., Ph.D., is Special Services Faculty for Undergraduate Education in the Department of Health Policy at the George Washington University School of Public Health and Health Services in Washington, D.C. She is also the Director of the SPHHS Undergraduate Program in Public Health.
Doctor Wilensky teaches a health policy analysis course and health systems overview course required of all students in the in the Master of Public Health-Health Policy degree program, as well as the introductory health policy course required of all undergraduate students majoring in public health. She has been the principal investigator or co-principal investigator on numerous health policy research projects relating to a variety of topics, such as Medicaid coverage, access and financing, community health centers, childhood obesity, HIV preventive services, financing of public hospitals, and data sharing barriers and opportunities between public health and Medicaid agencies.
As Director of the Undergraduate Program in Public Health, Dr. Wilensky is responsible for the day-to-day management of the program, including implementation of the dual B.S./M.P.H. program.  In addition, she is responsible for faculty oversight, course scheduling, new course development, and student satisfaction.
Doctor Wilensky is involved with several GW service activities: She has taught a service learning in public health course in the undergraduate program; she has been heavily involved in making GW’s Writing in the Disciplines program part of the undergraduate major in public health; and she is the advisor to students receiving a Master in Public Policy or a Master in Public Administration with a focus on health policy from GW’s School of Public Policy and Public Administration.
            Prior to joining GW, Dr. Wilensky was a law clerk for federal Judge Harvey Bartle, III in the Eastern District of Pennsylvania, and worked as an associate at the law firm of Cutler and Stanfield, LLP in Denver, Colorado.

 

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  • “The cases and other readings are wonderful in the way they focus on some of the most significant and complex health policy issues.”

    —Dr. Gary Helfand, Department of Health and Public Administration, University of Hawaii, West Oahu

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