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Health Policy: Application for Nurses and Other Healthcare Professionals, Third Edition provides an overview of the policy-making process within a variety of settings including academia, clinical practice, communities, and various health care systems. Health Policy takes a comprehensive structural approach to policymaking and provides the necessary tools to engage in health policy formulation.

The Third Edition remains an easy-to-read foundational policy book that operationalizes health policy and politics and is one of the few health policy books that takes a civic competence model approach. It also provides the necessary tools to engage in health policy formulation and includes coverage of think tanks and expansion on policy institutes.

Key Features:

• Revised Appendices with current policy resources.
• New Appendix: Major Federal Laws Executive Summaries.
• New Policy Terminology section at end of each chapter.
• Policy Analysis Templates enble students to put skills into practice.
• Summary Points and Policy Terminology emphasize critical content and terms.
• Case studies and policy analysis templates give real-world context.