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Policy and Politics for Nurses and Other Health Professionals: Advocacy and Action, Third Edition reflects a well-honed vision of what nursing and health professionals need to know to both understand and influence health policy. Through their focus on relevant issues, the authors discuss how healthcare professionals can prepare themselves to engage in the economic, political, and policy dimensions of health care.The Third Edition focuses on the most relevant health policy issues while taking an interdisciplinary approach to create an understanding of healthcare practice and policy across interprofessional teams. In addition, global and population health issues such as war, terrorism, disease and natural disasters that impact health professionals are also covered in detail. New to the Third Edition: * Case studies which close the gap in understanding how policy and politics impacts health systems* Updated content on the Affordable Care Act * Enhanced Primary Care Roles (new chapter) * Health Information Technology and the Intersection of Health Policy (new chapter) * Political Power of Nurses: Harnessing Our Values & Voices (new chapter)… (more)
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CONTENTS:
Section 1. Introduction
Nursing's history of advocacy and action
Policy and politics explained
A policy toolkit for healthcare providers and activists
Section 2. Population Health
Population health care: access, cost, and quality
Global health: a vision for action
Mental and behavioral health
Section 3. Affordable Care Act : from enactment to sustainability
Affordable Care Act (ACA) reframed and uncertain
Healthcare quality
Section 4. Health financing: payers, markets, and models
Healthcare costs: follow the money
Private health insurance market
Medicare: protector to innovator
Medicaid and the financing of care for vulnerable populations: a story of misconceptions
Innovation for the delivery system of the future: medical homes, accountable care organizations and bundled payment initiatives
Section 5. Health care and provider and care delivery
Hospitals: consolidation and compression
Enhanced primary care roles for nurses and other professionals
Physicians: it is increasingly about the team
Health information technology and the intersection of health policy
Political power of nurses: harnessing our values and voices.