Jansson Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy

A Guide for the Health and Helping Professions
1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-118-04414-8
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 512 Seiten, E-Book

Praise for
Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy
A Guide for the Health and Helping Professions
"Bruce Jansson's thoughtful and innovative book will appeal tostudents in social work, nursing, and public health as well asthose working in the health field of practice. The case examplesare extraordinary, and Jansson provides the ideas, context, andtheoretical base for readers to acquire the skills of advocacy inhealthcare. This is by far the best advocacy book I haveseen."
--Gary Rosenberg,
PhD Director, Division of Social Work and BehavioralScience
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy is a terrificdescription of opportunities for advocacy intervention and providesthe skill sets necessary for effective advocacy. A neededbook."
--Laura Weil, LCSW
Director, Health Advocacy Program
Sarah Lawrence College
"Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy is an invaluableresource for practitioners working in the healthcare field as wellas for students. It very thoroughly covers healthcare advocacyissues, contains real-world case examples, and provides a clear,step-by-step framework for practicing advocacy."
--Kimberly Campbell, ACSW, LCSW
Lecturer, Department of Social Work
Ball State University
An important resource for all who strive for the best inhealthcare treatment for their patients, themselves, and thenation
Bestselling author and award-winning researcher Bruce S. Janssonuses an intervention framework to illustrate how everyone in thehealthcare system can advocate effectively, not just for betterhealthcare delivery to individual clients but for the necessarypolicy change that will deliver long- term solutions to ournation's healthcare crisis as well.
Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy providesprofessionals with:
* Tools to move from traditional services to case advocacy andpolicy advocacy tasks
* Over 100 case studies from the perspective of patients,healthcare providers, and others who relate the experiences theyhave encountered in the healthcare system and share the wisdom theyhave learned
* Practical tips on how to provide effective advocacy and bringabout positive and long-term change in this complex environment

Autoren/Hrsg.

Jansson, Bruce S.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface.
1 Embedding Advocacy in the U.S. Health System.
2 How the U.S. Health System Contributes to Consumers' SevenProblems.
3 An Advocacy Practice Framework: Tasks, Skills, andActions.
4 Case Advocacy Skills.
5 Advocacy to Protect Consumers' Ethical Rights.
6 Advocacy to Improve Consumers' Quality of Care.
7 Advocacy to Promote Culturally Competent Health Services.
8 Using Advocacy to Promote Prevention in Health.
9 Using Advocacy to Help Consumers Finance Their Healthcare.
10 Advocacy for Healthcare Consumers Needing Mental HealthServices.
11 Advocacy to Help Consumers Receive Community-Based Care.
12 A Framework for Policy Advocacy by HealthcareProfessionals.
13 Using Policy Advocacy to Embed Advocacy in HealthcareOrganizations.
14 Policy Advocacy in Community, Electoral, and GovernmentSettings.
References.
Author Index.
Subject Index.

Über Autor(innen)

BRUCE S. JANSSON is the Margaret W. Driscoll/Louise M. Clevenger Professor of Social Policy and Administration at the University of Southern California. He has also served as the Moses Distinguished Research Professor at the City University of New York Graduate Center.