Book description
Praise for
Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy
A Guide for the Health and Helping Professions
"Bruce Jansson's thoughtful and innovative book will appeal to
students in social work, nursing, and public health as well as those
working in the health field of practice. The case examples are
extraordinary, and Jansson provides the ideas, context, and
theoretical base for readers to acquire the skills of advocacy in
healthcare. This is by far the best advocacy book I have seen."
-Gary Rosenberg,
PhD Director, Division of Social Work and Behavioral Science
Mount Sinai School of Medicine
"Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy is a terrific
description of opportunities for advocacy intervention and provides
the skill sets necessary for effective advocacy. A needed book."
-Laura Weil, LCSW
Director, Health Advocacy Program
Sarah Lawrence College
"Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy is an invaluable
resource for practitioners working in the healthcare field as well as
for students. It very thoroughly covers healthcare advocacy issues,
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 in healthcare
treatment for their patients, themselves, and the nation
Bestselling author and award-winning researcher Bruce S. Jansson uses
an intervention framework to illustrate how everyone in the healthcare
system can advocate effectively, not just for better healthcare
delivery to individual clients but for the necessary policy change
that will deliver long- term solutions to our nation's healthcare
crisis as well.
Improving Healthcare Through Advocacy provides professionals with:
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Tools to move from traditional services to case advocacy and
policy advocacy tasks
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Over 100 case studies from the perspective of patients,
healthcare providers, and others who relate the experiences they
have encountered in the healthcare system and share the wisdom
they have learned
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Practical tips on how to provide effective advocacy and bring
about positive and long-term change in this complex
environment
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.
