Health Care Advocacy

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Clinicians and Health Care Advocacy: The Reasons Why

   • Eugene C. Rich

   Pages 1-12

3. How Does Federal Health Policy Work?

   • Lyle B. Dennis

   Pages 13-22

4. Tools and Resources to Build Advocacy Skills

   • Laura L. Sessums, Patricia F. Harris

   Pages 23-34

5. Opportunities for Advocacy in the Legislative Branch

   • Christopher P. McCoy, Lyle B. Dennis, Mark Liebow

   Pages 35-43

6. The Rules of the Game

   • Mark D. Schwartz

   Pages 45-56

7. Advocacy in the Executive Branch of Government

   • John R. Feussner

   Pages 57-68

8. Establishing a Health Policy Strategy at the Association Level

   • William P. Moran

   Pages 69-78

9. Building Partnerships and Coalition Advocacy

   • Kavita K. Patel, Harry P. Selker, Harry P. Selker

   Pages 79-91

10. State-Level Advocacy

    • Mark Liebow, Tina Liebling

    Pages 93-99

11. Local Advocacy for the Health Care Professional

    • Michael B. Carr, Barbara Waters Roop, John D. Goodson

    Pages 101-112

12. Clinicians and Health Care Advocacy: What Comes Next?

    • Eugene C. Rich, Laura L. Sessums, Lyle B. Dennis, William P. Moran, Mark Liebow

    Pages 113-124

13. Back Matter

    Pages 125-129

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Interest in policy influences on health care is high, and will remain high as long as health care costs continue to rise and health care reform remains a hot topic in the news. There are inevitable and frequent points of interface between health care public policy and the health professions; in their daily work, clinicians see the problems with the health care system but often feel powerless and unsure how to advocate for system changes. Clinicians and Health Care Advocacy is written by clinicians for clinicians and focuses on how policy works and what individual professionals can do to affect policy. It looks at the facts and processes in an accessible way that employs case-based examples of clinician adavocacy to illustrate its points. The book is nonpartisan and will stay neutral on preferences for one public policy solution versus another (single payer vs. market reform, for example). Instead, it encourages a model of clinicians as responsible for healing not only the individual patient but also the larger health care system in which they work.

• Advocacy
• Clinicians
• Health Care

From the reviews:

“This is a timely book on the business of U.S. medicine, how we got to where we are now and where we are going. … This is a book for everyone who wishes to become conversant with and part of the healthcare debate in the U.S. … an interesting book on the state of current affairs and one that has some value for libraries in schools teaching medical economics or finance. It is a must read for anyone involved in healthcare advocacy … .”­­­ (Vincent F. Carr, Doody’s Review Service, December, 2011)

• , General Internal Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, USA

  Laura Sessums

• Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, Washington, USA

  Lyle Dennis

• , General Internal Medicine, Mayo Foundation for Medical Education an, Rochester, USA

  Mark Liebow

• Rutledge Tower, 12th Floor, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, USA

  William Moran

• , Center on Health Care Effectiveness, Mathematica Policy Institute, Washington, USA

  Eugene Rich

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