Health Care Advocacy A Guide for Busy Clinicians /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Sessums, Laura (Editor), Dennis, Lyle (Editor), Liebow, Mark (Editor), Moran, William (Editor), Rich, Eugene (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Subjects: Medicine.; General practice (Medicine).; Internal medicine.; Medicine & Public Health.; Medicine/Public Health, general.; Internal Medicine.; General Practice / Family Medicine.

It is critical for today's clinicians to understand the process of health policy advocacy. Outside influences, from the advent of managed care in the 1980s to recent health care reforms, have an enormous impact on the care clinicians are able to provide their patients.  Clinical training often...