E. Disciplinary Approaches

According to Google Books, health care is far more common than “healthcare” or “health-care” in describing the health care system, although it is declining in popularity even as “healthcare” has risen in usage in recent years. Major disciplines that relate to the study of health care systems and their impact on individual and/or population health include:

• Demography
• Health economics
• Health law
• Health management
• Health policy
• Health politics
• Medical ethics
• Medical sociology
• Public health
• Systems Thinking and Health Policy