Interprofessional policy analysis

Interprofessional policy analysis is a new concept in the annals of policy development. It responds to a growing need among legislators at all levels for information about exceptionally difficult problems confronting the human community. The disease AIDS, for example, is devastating to the persons who acquire it, the families involved, and the work places and institutions it touches. AIDS has evoked medical uncertainties, moral and social issues, legal questions, educational policy debates, and religious controversies that fall heavily at the doorstep of the professions. Professions tend, over time, to develop intraprofessional perspectives in regard to the problems AIDS has created. But seldom, if ever, do we structure ways professions can address a complicated issue interprofessionally. Interprofessional policy analysis is designed to bring the knowledge and insights of individual professions into play in the review of problems such as those AIDS produces. Leaders from the human services professions join in intensive discussion, over extended periods of time, probing the dimensions of a problem, leading eventually to a written statement which clarifies potential policy directions for society

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• Twenty-Five Years of Collaboration for Interprofessional Education and Practice at The Ohio State University

  Steven A Harsh, Jilaine W Fewell et al.•Peabody Journal of Education•2000

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