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Book Sheds New Light on Health Reform Debate
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| 10/6/2009 |
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Dr. David Barton Smith, a professor of health management and policy, examines the underlying structural problems that have produced disparities in treatment, escalating costs, unsafe and inadaquete care, the demoralization of committed health care professionals and the calls for reform in his new book this month. Dr. Smith has extensive experience as an educator, researcher and consultant in health care policies and has authored additional books on this topic. |
According the the publishers, the book, The Forensic Case Files: Diagnosing and Treating the Pathologies of the American Health System, provides unique insights into the current heated healthcare reform debate in the United States and the expanding U.S.$2 trillion that is the focus of public concern. The vivid case studies weave the history, richness and complexity of the problems faced by patients and service providers.
Dr. Smith is Research Professor in the Center for Health Equality and the Department of Health Management and Policy (and Emeritus Professor in the Risk, Insurance and Healthcare Management Department in the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University).
He was awarded a 1995 Robert Wood Johnson Health Policy Research Investigator Award for research on the history and legacy of the racial segregation of health care and continues to do research, write and give lectures on this topic at medical and law schools across the country. He is the author or co-author of five books on the organization of health services, including Health Care Divided: Race and Healing a Nation (The University of Michigan Press 1999), and Reinventing Care: Assisted Living in New York City (Vanderbilt University Press 2003).
Dr. Smith received his Ph.D. in Health Services Research from The University of Michigan.
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