- 304 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
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About this book
This important new textbook provides comparative and critical analysis of health care policy from high-income countries in Europe to low-income developing countries in the Global South.
It integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology, policy analysis, and political science to offer a unique combination of theory, historical background, and wider social commentary. The book is divided into three sections:
- Section I establishes the conceptual basis for the analysis of the health policymaking process, including implementation.
- Section II provides an introduction to the key elements of conducting a comparative health system's analysis, including chapters that provide examples of performance analysis in both high- and low-income developing countries.
- Section III examines key challenges now facing health policy-makers that include long-term social care provision, widening the scope of public health to address social inequalities in health outcome, the integration of genomic medicine within a health care system, and the establishment of an effective national pharmaceutical policy.
Each chapter includes case studies, historical-institutional contexts, and summaries of key health policies. Detailed and clearly written, it is the ideal text for health and social science students in this expanding area of analysis.
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Topic
MedicineSubtopic
Health Care DeliveryTable of contents
- Cover Page
- Half-Title Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgements
- General introduction
- Section I Conceptualising and Contextualising Health Policy: Introduction to Section I
- Section II Conceiving and Comparing Health Care Systems: Introduction to Section II
- Section III Challenges for Health Policy and Health Systems: Introduction to Section III
- Brief reflections on the study of health policy
- Index