Advocacy in Health Care (Paperback)

To maintain the correct balance between patient choice and patient protection, all health care practitioners must draw on their own knowledge and training. Patients often feel they have been badly informed, or have been deprived of the power to make decisions, even though the practitioner was "acting in the patient's best interests." This book discusses and evaluates the two main approaches to advocacy: empowering the patients with information, and endorsing their needs by speaking out on their behalf. It is an accessible yet authoritative analysis of the nature of advocacy in the health care professions, and puts forward a research-based model which practitioners can use in their study or in everyday

General

Imprint:	Blackwell Science
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	July 1998
First published:	August 1998
Authors:	K Teasdale
Dimensions:	234 x 163 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	176
ISBN-13:	978-0-632-04977-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General practice Promotions
LSN:	0-632-04977-4
Barcode:	9780632049776

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