Reimagining Healthcare shows you how facilities create an enviable healthcare reputation and become preferred health care providers and employers. This book examines: · Current issues and trends facing healthcare; · Why First World healthcare has come to cost so much; · Why the existing healthcare model is unsustainable; · The human side of these pressures; · How improving the care experience – for patients, care-givers and administrators – reduces risk and cost; and · Ways to help your team make their work enjoyable, efficient and higher quality.

Since FDR, the US healthcare system has been mired in politics and policy. All the while it has only increased in complexity and cost. Today half of all personal bankruptcies are attributable to healthcare costs. Many community hospitals are barely getting by with single digit profit margins. With a system teetering on the edge of a systemic crisis, we need to turn to a brand-new approach to rescue the US healthcare system.

Bringing together the experience, perspective and expertise of Paul Farmer, Jim Yong Kim, and Arthur Kleinman, Reimagining Global Health provides an original, compelling introduction to the field of global health. Drawn from a Harvard course developed by their student Matthew Basilico, this work provides an accessible and engaging framework for the study of global health. Insisting on an approach that is historically deep and geographically broad, the authors underline the importance of a transdisciplinary approach, and offer a highly readable distillation of several historical and ethnographic perspectives of contemporary global health problems. The case studies presented throughout Reimagining Global Health bring together ethnographic, theoretical, and historical perspectives into a wholly new and exciting investigation of global health. The interdisciplinary approach outlined in this text should prove useful not only in schools of public health, nursing, and medicine, but also in undergraduate and graduate classes in anthropology, sociology, political economy, and history, among others.

The healthcare industry has a solution, at its fingertips, to some of its most intractable problems--but it still hasn't grasped that solution. Its most dominant market segment consists of customers and end users who share needs that cut across health condition, age, ethnicity, nationality, education, and income--but the industry isn't focused on this segment. The needs of this dominant segment are understood and shared by many employees inside healthcare companies, including at senior levels. But their insights into their own demographic are rarely solicited. Who are these insightful employees? Who are these customers? And what is the solution for the industry's future growth? Women.

Why is the healthcare system broken in almost every part of the world? Why pumping in more money or resources into the system doesn't seem to solve the problem? Are we looking for the solutions in the wrong place? Is there a new way to address the challenges?Dr Naik shares his perspective of what we can do differently to address the gaps in today's healthcare system. He argues that to re-imagine healthcare, we have to start by 'thinking outside the hospitals'. Through an in-depth Why is the healthcare system broken in almost every part of the world? Why pumping in more money or resources into the system doesn't seem to solve the problem? Are we looking for the solutions in the wrong place? Is there a new way to address the challenges?Dr Naik shares his perspective of what we can do differently to address the gaps in today's healthcare system. He argues that to re-imagine healthcare, we have to start by 'thinking outside the hospitals'. Through an in-depth study of healthcare entrepreneurs from around the world, he gleans some key principles for the future of healthcare. In these pages you'll discover: - What does the world of healthcare look like when we 'think outside the hospitals'?- Who are the innovators around the world who are reimagining healthcare and how are they doing it?- What can we learn from each of the innovators and how is it relevant to our own life and health?Whether you are a healthcare professional or a healthcare consumer, you are becoming increasingly a decision maker of how to get better care. If you are curious about what options you have to help your patients and your own family, this book is for you

Almost half a century ago, policy leaders issued the Declaration of Alma Ata and embraced the promise of health for all through primary health care (PHC). That vision has inspired generations. Countries throughout the world—rich and poor—have struggled to build health systems anchored in strong PHC where they were needed most. The world has waited long enough for high-performing PHC to become more than an aspiration; it is now time to deliver. The COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic has facilitated the reckoning for that shared failure—but it has also created a once-in-a-generation opportunity for transformational health system changes. The pandemic has shown policy makers and ordinary citizens why health systems matter and what happens when they fail. Bold reforms now can prepare health systems for future crises and bring goals such as universal health coverage within reach. PHC holds the key to these transformations. To fulfill that promise, however, the walk has to finally match the talk. Walking the Talk: Reimagining Primary Health Care after COVID-19 outlines how to get there. It charts an agenda to reimagined, fit-for-purpose PHC. It asks three questions about health systems reform built around PHC: Why? What? How? The characteristics of high-performing PHC are precisely those that are most critical for managing the pressures coming to bear on health systems in the post-COVID world. The challenges include future outbreaks and other emergent threats, as well as long-term structural trends that are reshaping the environments in which systems operate in noncrisis times. Walking the Talk highlights three sets of megatrends that will increasingly affect health systems in the coming decades: • Demographic and epidemiological shifts • Changes in technology • Citizens’ evolving expectations for health care. Reimagined PHC systems will be equipped through optimized system design, financing, and delivery to ensure high-quality services, care to address patients’ needs, fairness and accountability, and resilient systems.