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Health Care Advocacy

A Guide for Busy Clinicians

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Laura Sessums

    1. , General Internal Medicine, Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, USA

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  2. Lyle Dennis

    1. Cavarocchi Ruscio Dennis Associates, Washington, USA

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  3. Mark Liebow

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

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  4. William Moran

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

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  5. Eugene Rich

    1. , Center on Health Care Effectiveness, Mathematica Policy Institute, Washington, USA

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  • Health care reform and advocacy is a hot topic for both clnicians and the public at large.
  • In their daily work, clinicians see problems with the health care system and this book provides the tools to empower them to make change.
  • Written by clinicians for clinicians.
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  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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About this book

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.

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“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)

Editors and Affiliations

  • , 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

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Health Care Advocacy

  • Book Subtitle: A Guide for Busy Clinicians

  • Editors: Laura Sessums, Lyle Dennis, Mark Liebow, William Moran, Eugene Rich

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6914-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Medicine, Medicine (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science + Business Media, LLC 2011

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-6913-2

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-6914-9

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 129

  • Number of Illustrations: 8 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Medicine/Public Health, general, Internal Medicine, General Practice / Family Medicine

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