scope:

Improving laws and policies start with advocacy and now more than ever this new book, Advocacy for Public Health Policy Change: An Urgent Imperative will be instrumental in training public health practitioners and students to turn their expertise into sound policies and laws. It will help these readers in these five key areas:

• Address the growing need to turn knowledge into better health policy.

• Offer a step-by-step planning and implementation framework for public health advocacy campaigns from start to finish.

• Expand professional development and satisfactions opportunities for the field.

• Improve service delivery.

• Improve health outcomes.