Springer Publishing launched a new monthly health care podcast series, Conversations About Health Care Delivery in the United States, featuring discussions with prominent experts, innovators, and leaders in the health sector available on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, and Amazon Music starting on March 7. podcast-series-conversations-about-health-care-delivery-in-the-united-states

The podcast series is hosted by Jim Knickman, the former Robert Derzon Chair at the NYU Wagner Graduate School of Public Service, and Brian Elbel, MPH, Professor of Population Health and Health Policy at NYU Wagner and the NYU Grossman School of Medicine. The series dives into complex and challenging issues affecting the U.S. health care system, its workforce, and the populations interacting with it, covering topics like health management, public health, health behavior, population health, healthcare quality, and health economics.

Knickman and Elbel engage with guests who are leaders in the health sector, from aging services to health policy, to learn more about the key drivers shaping the health care system, challenges and complexities related to health inequities, and the exciting career opportunities available to future health care professionals and leaders.

The podcast series is a companion to the 13th edition of Jonas and Kovner’s Health Care Delivery in the United States, as each episode has ties to essential concepts, challenges, complexities, and themes in the textbook.

Podcast Episode

How the U.S. Health Care Systems is Preparing for the Demographic Cliff features Ramsey Alwin, President and CEO of the National Council on Aging, and Kathleen Cameron, Senior Director of the National Council on Aging’s Center for Healthy Aging.

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The episode offers an in-depth discussion about the demographic shift, how the roles of families and social systems have evolved, federal and state-level programs for seniors, social isolation and inequities in the aging population, healthy aging, and exciting career opportunities in aging services.

The podcast series also features a supplemental instructor guide for anyone using the textbook that provides learning activities, discussion questions, and other guidance to engage with each episode, delivering practical and engaging content to learners and professionals in the health care space.