| Contents |
Section I. Introduction -- Nursing's History of Advocacy and Action -- Policy and Politics Expanded -- A Policy Toolkit for Healthcare Providers and Activists -- Section 2 Population Health -- Population Health Care : Access, Cost, and Quality -- Global Health : A Vision for Action -- Mental and Behavioral Health -- Section 3. Affordable Care Act : From Enactment to Sustainability -- Affordable Care Act (ACA) Reframed and Uncertain -- Healthcare Quality -- Section 4. Health Financing : Payers, Markets, and Models -- Healthcare Costs : Follow the Money -- Private Health Insurance Market -- Medicare : Protector to Innovator -- Medicaid and the Financing of Care for Vulnerable Populations : A Story of Misconceptions -- Innovation for the Delivery System of the Future : Medical Homes, Accountable Care Organizations and Bundled Payment Initiatives -- Section 5. Health Care and Provider and Care Delivery -- Hospitals : Consolidation and Compression -- Enhanced Primary Care Roles for Nurses and Other Professionals -- Physicians : It Is Increasingly About the Team -- Health Information Technology and the Intersection of Health Policy -- Political Power of Nurses : Harnessing Our Values and Voices. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Source of description | Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 19, 2018). |
| Issued in other form | Original 1284140393 9781284140392 |
| ISBN | 9781284140408 (electronic bk.) |
| ISBN | 1284140407 (electronic bk.) |
