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Shaping health policy : Case study methods and analysis.
This collection, written by leading health policy researchers, examines the role that case-studies play in British health policy, covering key health policy literatures in the policy process, analytical frameworks and seminal moments of the NHS.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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The Policy Press
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Shaping health policy; Contents; List of figures and tables; Contributors; Abbreviations; Acknowledgements; 1. Case studies in health policy: an introduction; Case studies: a case of what?; Health policy: a 'chameleon concept'; The scope and rationale of this book; References; 2. Case studies of the health policy process: a methodological introduction; Introduction; The interdisciplinary origins of the case study; American policy analysis and the Chicago School approach to case study research; The intrinsic case study and the professional health bureaucracy.
- The 'scientific' spectre of numbers: the case study and its methodological detractorsThe methodological makeover of the case study in political and health policy research; The UK health policy case study, and methodological pluralism; Conclusion: the extended case study and methodological pluralism; References; Part Two: Creation, consolidation and disillusion (1948-1980s); References; 3. NHS birthing pains; Introduction; Review of studies; Sources; Significance; Explanation; Conclusion; References; 4. Hospital policy in England and Wales: of what is the 1962 Hospital Plan a case?
- Introduction'A durable asset politically': rationality and planning, or an exercise in spin?; 'Ruthlessly breaking with habit and tradition': modernisation and modernity; The Plan and 'state failure'; Concluding comments; Acknowledgements; References; 5. The case study as history: 'Ideology, class and the National Health Service' by Rudolf Klein; Introduction; Background to the case study; 'Ideology, class and the National Health Service'; Analysing the case; 'Ideology, class and the National Health Service' in retrospect; Conclusion; References; 6. Hospitals in trouble; Introduction.
- Description of the case studyMethods and analysis; The contemporary relevance of the case study; Summary; References; 7. Normal accidents: learning how to learn about safety; Introduction; Normal accidents; Learning from Normal accidents; Concluding comments; Key points; Further reading; References; 8. Repressed interests: explaining why patients and the public have little influence on healthcare policy: Alford's concepts of dominant, challenging and repressed interests; Alford's thesis; Contemporary relevance; Some methodological lessons for health policy analysis; References.
- Part Three: 'Safe in our hands': conflicts and challenges (1980s and 1990s)References; 9. The 1983 Griffiths Inquiry; Introduction; Antecedents of the Griffiths Inquiry; The Griffiths Inquiry; Immediate reaction to 'the Griffiths prescription' and its implementation; Longer-term impact of general management after Griffiths; Summary: Griffiths' legacy; References; 10. AIDS in the UK: The making of policy, 1981-1994 (Berridge, 1996): a case study in British health policy; Context; Critique; Contemporary reflection; References.