Health and Healthcare Systems: A Global View

Gain Global Knowledge of Healthcare Delivery, Equity, and Reform! 

Explore the world’s health systems through a comparative, equity-driven lens. This engaging textbook offers critical insights into global healthcare structures, historical and cultural contexts, and innovative approaches to enhance service delivery. Learn how economic status, geography, and policy impact healthcare delivery, and build skills in cultural humility, advocacy, and systems thinking to navigate and improve health systems worldwide. 

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Key Features:  

• Analysis of health systems across 13 regions, highlighting structural challenges, financing models, and innovative practices, while also emphasizing equity, innovation, and cultural context 

• Enables readers to critically evaluate global health systems and apply comparative insights to real-world healthcare challenges 

• Chapters include region-specific overviews, key demographics and context, and diverse global healthcare practice examples that support engagement and critical thinking 

• Written by global health experts with lived experience and academic leadership in public health, policy, and international education 

• Instructor Resources include an Instructor’s Manual, PowerPoint slides, a Test Bank, and more 

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Thomas Foley, MPH (HP), Clinical Assistant Professor, Public Health Division, Binghamton University, SUNY, Decker College of Nursing and Health Sciences, Binghamton, NY

Anna Foucek Tresidder, PhD, Clinical Associate Professor, Washington State University, Elson S. Floyd College of Medicine, Spokane, WA