
- 240 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
Health care systems everywhere face multiple pressures from changing demography, the rise of non-communicable disease, the growing demand on health services, and limited resources at a time of austerity. Focusing on the British NHS from a political science perspective, this second edition of this best-selling book offers a fresh look at how it is coping with such pressures. The book explores the complexity of health policy and health services, offering a critical perspective on concerns including integrated care, the return of public health to local government and moves to devolve health services to local level. Crucially, it offers a critique of the market-style changes introduced by the Coalition government between 2010 and 2015. Students of health care and health policy, policy-makers and public health and health care professionals will find this lively and accessible reassessment of NHS reforms invaluable.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Dedication
- Contents
- List of boxes
- About the author
- Acknowledgements
- Foreword
- ONE: Key challenges facing health systems
- TWO: Meeting the health system challenges
- THREE: Moving upstream: the dilemma of securing health in health policy
- FOUR: Models of health system reform
- FIVE: Priority setting in health systems
- SIX: Choice and competition in health systems
- SEVEN: The health debate: what and where next?
- References