Research Catalog

Title

• Healthy voices, unhealthy silence : advocacy and health policy for the poor / Colleen M. Grogan and Michael K. Gusmano.

Author

Grogan, Colleen M.

Publication

Washington, D.C. : Georgetown University Press, c2007.

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Additional Authors

Gusmano, Michael K.

Description

xiv, 156 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

"Public silence in policymaking can be deafening. When advocates for a disadvantaged group decline to speak up, not only are their concerns not recorded or acted upon, but also the collective strength of the unspoken argument is lessened - a situation that undermines the workings of deliberative democracy by reflecting only the concerns of more powerful interests." "In Healthy Voices, Unhealthy Silence, Colleen M. Grogan and Michael K. Gusmano address issues of public silence through the lens of state-level health care advocacy for the poor. They examine how representatives for the poor participate in an advisory board process by tying together existing studies; extensive interviews with key players; and an in-depth, firsthand look at the Connecticut Medicaid advisory board's deliberations during the managed care debate. Drawing on the concepts of deliberative democracy, agenda setting, and nonprofit advocacy, Grogan and Gusmano reveal the reasons behind advocates' often unexpected silence on major issues, assess how capable nonprofits are at affecting policy debates, and provide prescriptive advice for creating a participatory process that adequately addresses the health care concerns of the poor and dispossessed."--BOOK JACKET.

Series Statement

• American governance and public policy series

Uniform Title

• American governance and public policy
• Project Muse UPCC books.

Subject

• Advisory Committees
• Connecticut
• Equality > Heath aspects > Connecticut
• Health Care Reform > economics
• Health Policy > economics
• Health Services Accessibility > economics
• Health care reform > Connecticut
• Health services accessibility > Connecticut
• Medicaid > Connecticut
• Medicaid > economics
• Patient advocacy > Connecticut
• Poor > Medical care > Connecticut

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [137]-149) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The problem and puzzle of public silence -- Explanations for public silence: inequality, dependence, and infeasibility -- Medicaid's persistent and conflicting goals -- Medicaid's policy network and the ties that bind: nonprofit advocacy and social interactions -- Medicaid reform and advisory boards: who will advocate for poor people's health?

ISBN

• 9781589011823 (pbk. : alk. paper)
• 1589011821 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2007007010

OCLC

85484940

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library