Sultz & Young’s Health Care USA: Understanding its Organization and Delivery, Eleventh Edition provides a clear, accessible introduction to the U.S. health care system, offering a comprehensive look at how American health care is organized, delivered, and continually transformed. Combining essential historical background with analysis of current healthcare trends, the book helps readers understand both the evolution of the system and the major forces shaping its future.
This latest edition addresses the fast‑moving nature of healthcare delivery with updated discussions on systems thinking, and the growing role of healthcare data analytics in decision‑making, and key priorities such as Health People 2030. It also explores recent policy shifts impacting the U.S. healthcare system specifically cost, access, and affordability.
Key Updates:
- Health systems thinking perspective is used as the organizing framework throughout, addressing a core Council on Education for Public Health (CEPH) competency.
- Updated new data for tables, charts, figures, and text based on the latest published data, trends and research findings.
- All chapters were revised and updated to reflect current developments and trends in the field such as artificial intelligence, machine learning, new health policies, and much more.
- Updated assignments, cases, and interviews engage learners and encourage better comprehension of concepts and issues.
- Updated terminology to reflect current practice and industry trends
