Community health decisions: An analysis of a grassroots venture into citizen participation in health care policy prioritization issues

Health care policymaking has been largely a closed system in which policymaking experts, special interest groups, and politicians have joined forces to decide what was best for the health care of the American people. This system has been shortsighted leading to severe long-range consequences on society; These critical forms of social consequence warrant this study of health care planning. Specifically, an analysis of a citizen-based grassroots venture, known as "Community Health Decisions," provides us a description of a civic participation movement into the health care political arena; It would appear that with the conclusions of this author, we might learn more from the declared values on health care by the individual citizens than from a governmental body of elites who may be overly biased by outside pressures and perhaps far removed from representing the values of the people they should serve. The study focuses on the health care crisis of the 1990s and the bioethical issues that are emerging from that crisis.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts (MA)

Level thesis:degree_level

Thesis

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Ethics and Policy Studies

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

Year

1989

Author dc:creator

• Bonnee-Nichols, Michele

Contributors dc:contributor

• Craig Walton

Statement dc:rights

• IN COPYRIGHT. For more information about this rights statement, please visit http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English

Identifier

https://oasis.library.unlv.edu/rtds/69

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:oasis.library.unlv.edu:rtds-1068