Tina K. Sacks, PhD,is?an associate professor at?UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare. Her fields of interest include racial inequities in health,?social determinants of health, and poverty and inequality. Professor Sacks focuses on how macro-structural forces, including structural discrimination and immigration, affect women's health. Emmeline Chuang, PhD, is an associate professor at UC Berkeley School of Social Welfare and Director of the Mack Center on Public and Nonprofit Management in the Human Services. She is committed to understanding how health and human service organizations can improve service access and client outcomes. Specific research areas include how to improve integration care for clients involved with multiple service systems, strategies for supporting evidence uptake by frontline staff, and how the design of work affects provider/staff satisfaction and quality of care. Angela Perone, PhD, JD, MSW, MA, is the Director of the Center for the Advanced Study of Aging Services and an Assistant Professor at UC Berkeley's School of Social Welfare. She is a licensed attorney and practiced for nearly 10 years before serving as Executive Director of a community-based organization focused on services and advocacy for LGBTQ+ older adults.
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Acknowledgments Preface Chapter 1. A Primer on Theories of Social Justice and Defining the Problem of Health Care Chapter 2. The Historical Evolvement of the U.S. Health Care System Chapter 3. The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Finance Chapter 4. The Contemporary Organization of Health Care: Health Care Services and Utilization Chapter 5. Long-Term Care for Older Adults and Adults with Disabilities Chapter 6. Disparities in Health and Health Care Chapter 7. Social Epidemiology: Unraveling the Social Determinants of Disparities in Health Chapter 8. Prospects for Just Health Care System Reform: A Political and Principled Analysis Glossary Index