Health Policy and Politics: A Nurse's Guide will show you why nurses n eed to be involved in the policy process, how major health concerns ar e brought to the attention of governmeny, how legislation really happe ns, why the regulatory power of government agencies cannot be underest imated and must be understood, how vague goals and objectives can be u sed to design workable programs, how a policy or program is implemente d, including barriers and facilitators to implementation, issues criti cal to policy evaluation - qualitative and quantitative issues encount ered in research, how to locate resources and evaluate their worth, an d how a comparative approach can be used, along with an example of a m odel for the study of policy at an international level.

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