GSU Library Research Guides: HA 3900: Intro to Health Care System (Dr. Martin): Books

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Artificial Intelligence in e-Health Framework, Volume 1
This book specifically explores Artificial Intelligence developments in disease diagnosis, health monitoring, medical image recognition, and diagnostics, as well as e-health records management.
Black Health in the South
A collection of important essays on the health and well-being of African Americans in the southern United States.For African Americans in the southern United States, the social determinants of health are influenced by a unique history that encompasses hundreds of years of slavery, injustices during the Jim Crow era, the Great Migration, the Civil Rights era, and contemporary experiences like the Black Lives Matter movement. In Black Health in the South, editors Steven S. Coughlin, Lovoria B. Williams, and Tabia Henry Akintobi bring together essays on this important subject from top public health experts.
The doctor and the algorithm: promise, peril, and the future of health AI
The Doctor and the Algorithm combines insights from science and technology studies, critical algorithm studies, and public interest informatics to better understand the promise and peril of health AI.
The health care handbook: a clear and concise guide to the United States health care system
The fully revised third edition provides concise coverage on health care delivery, insurance and economics, policy, and reform--all critical components of the system in which health care professionals work.
Health Insurance
Health insurance is the machinery that makes the US health system run. Bridging the gap between introductory economics courses and the field of healthcare administration, the book applies economic theory to the real world to explain why the health insurance market functions the way it does.
Navigating the Cultures of Health Care and Health Insurance
Based on field research conducted in the Washington D.C. area, Navigating the Cultures of Health Care and Health Insurance takes a mixed methods, qualitative and quantitative approach to the study of foreign patients' utilization and assessment of health care in the US. Through interviews with both health care providers and patients, attitudes towards US health insurance and medical treatment are compared for migrants from three countries with very different cultural backgrounds and health insurance systems: Germany, India and Japan.
Physical examination & health assessment
ISBN: 9780323394550

Physical Examination and Health Assessment provides all the information necessary to conduct a holistic health assessment across the life span. The physical examination unit is organized by body system, pedagogically and clinically the most logical and efficient way to learn and perform health assessment.
Social Networks and Health Inequalities: A New Perspective for Research
The book provides network analyses on health inequalities from the perspective of sociology, psychology, and public health and is of interest to a wide range of scholars, students and practitioners trying to understand how health inequalities are reproduced across generations.
Transforming Leadership, Improving the Patient Experience
Key topics in this practical guide include provider-patient communications; demonstrating the value of patient-focused care; how physician and nurse executives use synergy as a strategy; engaging board members in promoting quality and safety goals and in developing hospital community partnerships; building bridges between physicians, administrators, trustees, and hospital staff; and developing a leadership pipeline.

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