In this Book
- Patients as Policy Actors
- Book
- 2011
- Published by: Rutgers University Press
- Series: Critical Issues in Health and Medicine
summary
Patients as Policy Actors offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centered care and policymaking. The authors in this volume illustrate, from multiple disciplinary perspectives, the unexpected ways that patients can matter as both agents and objects of health care policy yet nonetheless too often remain silent, silenced, misrepresented, or ignored. The volume concludes with a unique epilogue outlining principles for more effectively integrating patient perspectives into a pluralistic conception of policy-making. With the recent enactment of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, patients' and consumers' roles in American health care require more than ever the careful analysis and attention exemplified by this innovative volume.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-vi
- Part I: Voices of the Silent
- pp. 17-20
- Part II: From Individual to Collective
- pp. 109-112
- Part III: How Patients Matter
- pp. 193-196
- Notes on Contributors
- pp. 293-296
Additional Information
ISBN
9780813550855
Related ISBN(s)
9780813550503
MARC Record
OCLC
775872927
Pages
328
Launched on MUSE
2012-06-26
Language
English
Open Access
No