Full Description
Health Policy: Applications for Nurses and Other Health Care Professionals, Third Edition provides an overview of the policy-making process within a variety of settings including academia, clinical practice, communities, and various health care systems. Health Policy takes a comprehensive structural approach to policymaking and provides the necessary tools to engage in health policy formulation.
The Third Edition remains an easy-to-read foundational policy book that operationalizes health policy and politics and is one of the few health policy books that takes a civic competence model approach. It also provides the necessary tools to engage in health policy formulation and includes coverage of think tanks and expansion on policy institutes.
Key Features:
- Revised Appendices with current policy resources.
- New Appendix: Major Federal Laws Executive Summaries.
- Addition of Policy Terminology section at end of each chapter.
- Policy Analysis Templates to help readers put skills into practice.
- Summary Points and Policy Terminology emphasize critical content and terms.
- Case studies and policy analysis templates bring concepts into the real world.
