Kategoria BISAC: Medical >> Health Policy

This book takes a deep look at healthcare in today’s post-pandemic world. It combines both theory and application to reflect a new era for healthcare. The need for innovation, digitalization, and enhanced policies in healthcare has never been greater than it is today. Taking this need into consideration, this book offers a multidisciplinary approach to healthcare, in both managerial and clinical views. Since the book combines both qualitative and quantitative studies about healthcare, readers will receive a broad view of healthcare issues and policies in today’s world.

Aging is an irreversible natural process; we as humans develop many age-related disadvantages impacting many aspects of our life. Aging is not a negative process, but the ever-increasing band of the aging population creates a different socioeconomic and healthcare cost-associated risk that may hinder the sustainable development goals of any country and the world in general. Thus, the primary purpose of this book is to cover all aspects of the aging population. Each chapter in this book will give its readers a comprehensive understanding of how an aging population affects public programs...

This book explores the ethical problems of algorithmic bias and its potential impact on populations that experience health disparities by examining the historical underpinnings of explicit and implicit bias, the influence of the social determinants of health, and the inclusion of racial and ethnic minorities in data.  Over the last twenty-five years, the diagnosis and treatment of disease have advanced at breakneck speeds. Currently, we have technologies that have revolutionized the practice of medicine, such as telemedicine, precision medicine, big data, and AI.  These...