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Health policy : a critical perspective /

This textbook provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy within the UK and Europe. Each chapter integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology and political science to offer a unique combination of theory, historical detail and wider social commen...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Crinson, Iain
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London ; Thousand Oaks, CA : SAGE, 2009.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; contents; acknowledgements; introduction; part one
  • theory and context; 1 studying health policy; 2 the role of the state: theory and practice; 3 the policy-making process; part two
  • the healthcare system; 4 the structure of healthcare in the uk: continuity and change; 5 the system of healthcare funding in the uk; 6 a comparative analysis of european healthcare systems: changing demands, common solutions?; part three
  • issues in healthcare provision; 7 governing the medical profession; 8 managing the performance of the nhs.
  • 9 a patient-led healthservice? choice, equity and the supplier market10 meeting long-term health and social care needs in the community; part four
  • looking to the future; 11 health beyond policy; notes; references; index.