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Public Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals provides a nursing focus with an interdisciplinary approach intertwined to create an understanding of the economic, political and policy dimensions of health care. Using contributors, this reference offers future nurses and healthcare practitioners keen insight and understanding that clinical practice is derived from regulation, laws, and policies that are initiated from public policy and politics. Key features include chapter objectives, summaries, examples, boxed articles, case studies, review questions, key terms, photographs, and a tool kit that includes a "skills" section of how-to's.

Foreword	p. ix
Preface	p. xi
Contributors	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
To Engage or Not Engage: The Choice Confronting Nurses and Other Health Professionals	p. 3
Health Status and Access to Care	p. 25
The Health Labor Force: Understanding the Distribution of Power and Influence	p. 51
Physicians	p. 53
Nurses	p. 75
Allied and Other Health Professionals	p. 103
Healthcare Providers: Understanding How Power, Markets, and Government Impact the Organization and Delivery of Care	p. 121
Hospitals: The Power of Institutional Interests	p. 123
Long-Term Care	p. 143
Mental and Behavioral Health: Clinical and Policy Impact on Mental Health Trends	p. 155
Public Health Policy: Promotion, Prevention, and Protection	p. 181
Healthcare Finance: Understanding the Role of Markets in Government	p. 209
Healthcare Costs: Follow the Money!	p. 211
The History of Health Insurance in the United States	p. 237
Drivers	p. 261
Advancing the Use of Technology in the Organization and Delivery of Health Care	p. 263
Healthcare Quality	p. 287
Health Services Research	p. 309
Conclusions: A Policy Toolkit for Healthcare Providers and Activists	p. 327
Web Resources	p. 353
Glossary of Managed Care Terminology	p. 357
Index	p. 365
Photo Credits	p. 377
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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals

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