Patients as Policy Actors

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-8135-5051-0
Verlag: Rutgers University Press

Buch, Englisch, 328 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 151 mm x 228 mm, Gewicht: 498 g

<i>Patients as Policy Actors</i> offers groundbreaking accounts of one of the health field's most important developments of the last fifty years--the rise of more consciously patient-centred 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Hoffman, Beatrix

Tomes, Nancy

Grob, Rachel

Schlesinger, Mark

Über Autor(innen)

NANCY TOMES is a professor in the history department at Stony Brook University. She is the author of several books,among them, <i>The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life</i>.MARK SCHLESINGER is a professor of health policy and a fellow of the Institution for Social and Policy Studies at Yale University and past editor of the <i>Journal of Health Policy, Politics and Law</i>.NANCY TOMES is a professor in the history department at Stony Brook University. She is the author of several books,among them, <i>The Gospel of Germs: Men, Women, and the Microbe in American Life</i>