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Embedding Advocacy in the American Health System | |
Seven Problems Commonly Encountered by Health Consumers | |
Advocacy | |
Scenarios and Vignettes | |
Resurgence of Interest in Case- and Policy Advocacy | |
Advocacy from Outside the Health System | |
Advocacy as an Underground Activity | |
Advocacy as an Ethical Imperative | |
A Philosophical Premise | |
An Outline of this Book | |
On-Line Materials Relevant to this Chapter | |
How the American Health System Contributes to Consumers' Seven Problems | |
From History to Case- and Policy Advocacy | |
An Advocacy Practice Framework: Tasks, Skills, and Actions | |
Brief Overview of Case-Advocacy Interventions | |
Eight Case-Advocacy Tasks | |
Reading the Context | |
Triage | |
Allocating Case Advocacy Services | |
Diagnosing Task | |
The Strategizing Task | |
Implementing Case-Advocacy Strategy | |
Assessing Advocacy Interventions | |
Progressing to Policy Advocacy | |
Summary | |
Case Advocacy Skills | |
Skills for Reading the Advocacy Context (Task #1) | |
Skills for Case Advocacy Triage (Task #2) | |
Skills for Allocating Case Advocacy Services (Task #3) | |
Skills for the Diagnosing Task (Task #4) | |
Skills for the Strategizing Task (Task #5) | |
Skills for the Implementing Task (Task # 6) | |
Skills for the Assessing Task (Task #7) | |
Skills for the Progression Task (Task #8) | |
Two Skills in More Detail | |
The Nature of Influence | |
Empowering Consumers | |
Empowerment (continued) | |
Advocacy with Respect to Seven Consumer Problems | |
Advocacy to Protect Consumers' Ethical Rights | |
Promoting Ethical Conduct in Health Care | |
The Policy and Regulatory Thicket for Promoting Ethical Conduct | |
Obtaining Skills in Ethical Reasoning at the Case Level | |
Nineteen Scenarios Encountered by Case Advocates | |
Summary | |
Moving from Case Advocacy Scenarios to Broader Policy Issues | |
Advocacy to Improve Consumers' Quality of Care | |
A Definition of "Quality Health Care" | |
General Criticisms of the Success of American Health Care In Addressing Physiological Illnesses | |
The Policy and Regulatory Thicket as It Pertains to Quality of Care | |
Fifteen Scenarios Encountered by Consumers With Respect to Quality of Care | |
Progressing from Case Advocacy to Policy Advocacy to Enhance Quality of Care | |
Advocacy to Promote Culturally Competent Health Services | |
Conceptualizing Cultural Competency | |
What it Means to be Culturally Competent: A Conceptual Framework | |
The Case for Providing Culturally Competent Services | |
The Policy and Regulatory Thicket | |
Ten Scenarios Pertaining to Culturally Incompetent Services | |
Policy Advocacy to Promote the Cultural Competency of the Health System | |
Using Advocacy to Promote Prevention in Health Care | |
Defining Prevention | |
Threats to Health | |
Why American Consumers Particularly Need Prevention | |
Barriers to Prevention | |
The Policy and Regulatory Thicket | |
Twelve Scenarios of Consumers Regarding Preventive Services | |
Using Advocacy to Help Consumers Finance Their Health Care | |
Dividing Runaway Costs Among Different Entities | |
Buck-Passing | |
Seniors' Angst | |
The Medical Wheel of Fortune | |
Some Effects of Poor Coverage on Health Outcomes | |
Ripple Effects of Health Costs and Coverage | |
The Policy and Regulatory Thicket Protecting Consumers With Respect to Health Coverage | |
Scenarios Encountered by Advocates | |
Moving from Case Advocacy to Policy Advocacy | |
Scenarios Presented in this Book | |
Five Scenarios in Online Materials | |
Conclusion | |
Advocacy for Health Consumers Needing Mental Health Services | |
Why Many Consumers Turn to Health Settings for Help with Mental Conditions | |
Kinds of Mental Distress Often Experienced by Consumers | |
Who Attends to Consumers' Mental Health Needs? | |
Some Liabilities in the Policy and Regulatory Thicket | |
Assets in the Policy and Regulatory Thicket | |
The Policy and Regulatory Thicket: Laws, Regulations, and Staff that Facilitate Social and Mental Health Services | |
26 Scenarios Encountered by Case Advocates | |
Moving from Case Advocacy to Policy Advocacy | |
Moving from Case Advocacy to Policy Advocacy | |
18 Scenarios in the Book | |
8 Scenarios in the Online Materials for this chapter | |
Advocacy to Help Consumers Receive Community-Based Care | |
Why Many Health Consumers Need Community-Oriented | |
A Compendium of Community-Based Health Services | |
Assets and Liabilities in the Policy and Regulatory Thicket | |
15 Case Advocacy Scenarios for Consumers Needing Community-Based Care | |
Moving from Case Advocacy to Policy Advocacy | |
13 Scenarios in this Book | |
Summary | |
A Framework for Policy Advocacy by Health Professionals | |
The Importance of Policy Advocacy | |
A Policy Advocacy Framework | |
Surmounting Fatalism, Controversy, and Vested Interests | |
Policy Advocacy in Four Settings | |
Using Policy Advocacy to Embed Advocacy in Health-Care Organizations | |
What Advocates Seek to Change in Health Organizations | |
Using Policy Advocacy to Embed Advocacy in Health Organizations | |
Challenge 4: Developing a Base of Support | |
Challenges 5 and 6: Developing Proposals and Securing Enactment | |
Challenge 7: Securing Implementation | |
Challenge 8: Assessing Policies | |
Summary | |
Policy Advocacy in Community, Electoral, and Government Settings | |
Health Advocacy in Communities | |
Policy Advocacy in Electoral Settings | |
Policy Advocacy in Legislative and Regulatory Settings | |
Advocating for Regulatory Changes | |
Establishing a Policy Agenda in Specific Health Settings | |
Summary | |
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