Health Policy: A Critical Perspective / Edition 1

by Iain Crinson

Overview

This book provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy. Primarily focusing on the UK, the chapters cover issues such as the policy-making process; the development of the NHS; health care governance; health promotion; and the comparative analysis of health care systems within the EU and US. Each chapter brings together social and political themes to offers a unique combination of theory, historical detail, and wider social commentary.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781412922869
Publisher:	SAGE Publications
Publication date:	01/05/2009
Pages:	232
Product dimensions:	6.80(w) x 9.60(h) x 0.80(d)

Table of Contents

PART ONE
Theory and Context
Studying Health Policy
The Role of the State
Theory and Practice
The Policy-Making Process
PART TWO
The Healthcare System
The Structure of Healthcare in the UK
Continuity and Change
The System of Healthcare Funding in the UK
A Comparative Analysis of European Healthcare Systems
Changing Demands, Common Solutions?
PART THREE
Issues in Healthcare Provision
Governing the Medical Profession
Managing the Performance of the NHS
A Patient-Led Health Service? Choice, Equity and the Supplier Market
Meeting Long-term Health and Social Care Needs in the Community
PART FOUR
Looking to the Future
Health Beyond Policy

Editorial Reviews

"Unquestionably, the author is well acquainted with contemporary health policy...This well-ordered, relatively concise and timely textbook will find a home on the shelves of healthcare and social science students taking modules in health policy, their teachers, as well as the general reader seeking both theoretical and practical insights into contemporary health policy. The merit of this book is not that it has proposed a definitive framework for health policy analysis, or that it has covered all the current health policy issues, but that it has related key sociological and political science concepts and theories to health policy analysis, which the reader may put together as they like to develop their own lines of inquiry. Moreover, vignettes with key concepts and suggested activities that appear throughout the text will help the reader further develop their critical thinking and understanding of the issues discussed in the text. "

- Journal of Social Policy, April, 2010

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