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Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America´s Healthcare Promise
Prabhjot Singh
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Description for Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America´s Healthcare Promise
Hardback. Every rising public health leader, frontline clinician, and policymaker in the country should read this book to better understand how they can contribute to a more integrated and supportive healthcare system. Num Pages: 312 pages, 1, 1 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; JFFH; JPP; LNTJ; MBN. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 169 x 237 x 25. Weight in Grams: 564.
Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the complex local circumstances that make it difficult for struggling men, women, and children to live healthier lives. In Dying and Living in the Neighborhood, Dr. Prabhjot Singh argues that we must look beyond the walls of the hospital and into the neighborhoods where patients live and die to address the troubling rise in chronic disease. Building on ... Read more
Even as US spending on healthcare skyrockets, impoverished Americans continue to fall ill and die of preventable conditions. Although the majority of health outcomes are shaped by non-medical factors, public and private healthcare reform efforts have largely ignored the complex local circumstances that make it difficult for struggling men, women, and children to live healthier lives. In Dying and Living in the Neighborhood, Dr. Prabhjot Singh argues that we must look beyond the walls of the hospital and into the neighborhoods where patients live and die to address the troubling rise in chronic disease. Building on ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Condition
New
Weight
563g
Number of Pages
312
Place of Publication
Baltimore, MD, United States
ISBN
9781421420448
SKU
V9781421420448
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Ref
99-50
About Prabhjot Singh
Prabhjot Singh, MD, PHD, is the director of the Arnhold Institute for Global Health and chairman of the Department of Health System Design & Global Health at the Mount Sinai Health System. He is also the special advisor for design and strategy for the Peterson Center on Healthcare.
Reviews for Dying and Living in the Neighborhood: A Street-Level View of America´s Healthcare Promise
... Singh's thesis merits discussion for anyone interested in curing a sick health care system.
Kirkus Reviews
As Singh pulls together the moving pieces-the neighborhood, the health care sector, community organizations, and government-into a vision of how to integrate the whole, it seems feasible that anchoring our health to our neighborhood will bring the kind of ... Read more
Kirkus Reviews
As Singh pulls together the moving pieces-the neighborhood, the health care sector, community organizations, and government-into a vision of how to integrate the whole, it seems feasible that anchoring our health to our neighborhood will bring the kind of ... Read more