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Advocacy in Health Care

The Power of a Silent Constituency

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  1. Joan H. Marks
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Table of contents (14 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xx
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  2. Milestones in Public Interest Advocacy

    • Paul G. Rogers
    Pages 1-7

  3. The Need for Health Advocacy

    • David Axelrod
    Pages 9-18

  4. Hospice as Advocacy

    • David Greer
    Pages 19-26

  5. Health Advocacy Among Minority Groups

    • George I. Lythcott
    Pages 27-39

  6. Advocacy for Children

    • Sara Rosenbaum
    Pages 41-49

  7. Patient Advocacy

    • Ruth Ravich
    Pages 51-60

  8. Advocacy for the Elderly

    • Robert N. Butler
    Pages 61-65

  9. Advocacy Issues for Older Women

    • Myrna Lewis
    Pages 67-76

  10. Unionized Health Workers

    • Victor Gotbaum
    Pages 77-82

  11. Quality Management neé Quality Assurance

    • Vergil N. Slee
    Pages 83-93

  12. Confessions of a Naive Scientist

    • Irving J. Selikoff
    Pages 95-97

  13. New Approaches to the Resolution of Professional Liability Problems

    • Don Harper Mills
    Pages 99-102

  14. Advocacy for the Mentally Ill

    • Herbert Pardes
    Pages 103-111

  15. Communication Networks

    • Suzanne Rauffenbart
    Pages 113-118

  16. Back Matter

    Pages 119-140
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About this book

The roles of both the consumer and the health advocate professional have become increasingly significant in to­ day's climate of "rationed" health care. It seems clear that the timely exchange of ideas among seasoned health care advocates is necessary if we are to deal with the complex problems of a technologically advanced so­ ciety seeking to ration its heath care in a truly humane way. Toward such a timely exchange, the first Confer­ ence on Advocacy in Health Care was organized by the Health Advocacy Program of Sarah Lawrence College and recently held. Advocacy in Health Care: The Power of a Silent Constituency is the proceedings of the conference and will, we believe, greatly extend our efforts to share both the problems and solutions that effective patient advocacy entails. Never before has the issue of advocating for special population groups by combining the resources of consumers and professionals been the exclusive focus of one volume. This book discusses the power of such an alignment and describes specific organizational techniques that have been effective in bringing about changes in the delivery system. The final section of the book, "Questions, Com­ ments and Answers," presents a selection of topics of special interest that surfaced during the open disc- vii viii Preface sion at the last conference session. The comments were forthright in their criticism of public policy, and the vigor of the argument underscored the vitality of the co­ alition between professionals and consumers.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Advocacy in Health Care

  • Book Subtitle: The Power of a Silent Constituency

  • Editors: Joan H. Marks

  • Series Title: Contemporary Issues in Biomedicine, Ethics, and Society

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-5004-3

  • Publisher: Humana Totowa, NJ

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: The Humana Press Inc. 1986

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-89603-092-3Published: 21 July 1986

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-9394-1Published: 18 October 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-5004-3Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XX, 140

  • Topics: Theory of Medicine/Bioethics

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