title: Developing national health policy in Taiwan.
abstract: Since 1987 ICN has been actively encouraging national nurses' associations (NNAs) and their members to play a more active role in health policymaking at the local, national and international levels. Below the author offers her first-hand experience in developing national health policy since 1988, when she became deputy director and then director of the Bureau of Health Promotion and Protection at Taiwan's Department of Health.
authors.affiliation: Bureau of Health Promotion and Protection, Department of Health, Taiwan.
authors.forename: Y M
authors.initials: YM
authors.lastname: Chao
mesh_terms: D005376:Financial Management; D006285:Health Planning; D006291:Health Policy; D006293:Health Promotion; D006296:Health Services / Q000191:economics; D006298:Health Services Administration; D006801:Humans; D009937:Organizational Objectives; D011050:Policy Making; D012956:Societies, Nursing; D013624:Taiwan