High Risk and High Stakes Health Professionals, Politics, and Policy

Name: High Risk and High Stakes Health Professionals, Politics, and Policy
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ISBN: 9780313284755

ISBN-10: 031328475X

ISBN-13: 9780313284755

Edition: 1992

Authors: Earl Wysong

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Wysong analyzes the nature and extent of the involvement of seven major health and safety professional organizations in the development of the most significant national reform effort in occupational health policy since the OSH Act of 1970: The High Risk Occupational Disease Notification and Prevention Act. The professions have long been a focus of study in sociology; however, this is the first book to examine how the interests and involvement of health professional's organizations on a national health policy issue are linked to external interests and dynamic contextual factors. By illuminating how professional societies' policy choices are embedded within and shaped by economic and…

Book details

List price: $75.00
Copyright year: 1992
Publisher: ABC-CLIO, LLC
Publication date: 7/30/1992
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 192
Size: 6.14" wide x 9.21" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.968
Language: English

Wysong is professor of sociology at Indiana University, Kokomo.



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Foreword


Preface


Acknowledgments



Professional Societies and Policy Issues


Introduction



Organizations, Theory, and Health Policy



Risk Notification: Concept and Policy



High Risk Legislation: 1985-88


Introduction



The Focal Actors: Descriptions, Linkages, and Analysis


Conclusions



Case Narratives: Four Who Played


Introduction



Case Narratives: Three Who Passed



Summary and Conclusions


Acronyms


Notes


References


Index


About the Author