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Support workers and the health professions in international perspective the invisible providers of health care.
This original collection analyses the global experience of health care support workers (HSWs) and examines their interface with the health professions, regulatory practice risks, employment challenges and the dilemmas of an ageing population. Crucial future policy recommendations are also made for a...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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[Place of publication not identified]
POLICY Press,
2020.
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| Colección: | Sociology of health professions.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Series information
- Support Workers and the Health Professions in International Perspective: The Invisible Providers of Health Care
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- Notes on contributors
- Editors' overview
- One Introduction: Support workers and the health professions
- Introduction
- Contributions to the book
- Key overarching messages
- Conclusion
- References
- Two Health professionals, support workers and the precariat
- Introduction
- Health professionalisation, deprofessionalisation and proletarianisation
- Health support workers and the concept of the precariat
- Health support workers and the precariat in the UK
- Personal support workers and the precariat in Canada
- Conclusion: health support workers, precarity and future policy
- References
- Three Unpaid informal carers: The 'shadow' workforce in health care
- Introduction
- A portrait of unpaid, informal carers
- The challenging realities of caring
- Rising and more complex needs
- Carer costs and consequences
- Unpaid caring in decline
- The policy response: caring for caregivers
- Carer recognition
- Carer support and advocacy networks
- Financial support
- Work leave
- Respite
- Human rights protection
- Building and adapting social structures
- Conclusion
- References
- Four The management and leadership of support workers
- Introduction
- The New Public Management and professionalism in health and social care
- The rise of support workers in nursing
- Nursing professionalisation and support workers
- From the New Public Management to the New Public Governance
- Support workers, professionalism and responsibilisation
- Conclusion
- References
- Five Regulation, risk and health support work
- Introduction: health professionalisation, risk and the public interest
- The rise of risk-based regulation: adverse events and the policy response
- Recent developments: an expansion of the regulatory gaze
- Health support workers: an understudied but risk-laden resource
- The review by Saks and colleagues: risks, regulation and support workers
- The Cavendish review of risk, regulation and support workers
- Attempts to enhance the regulation of health support workers
- Conclusion: moving forward
- References
- Six The interface of health support workers with the allied health professions
- Introduction
- What is allied health?
- The development of the support workforce for the allied health professions
- The profession-driven model of allied health support worker development
- The managerial model of allied health support worker development
- Challenges faced by the allied health support workforce
- Quality and inconsistency of training
- Lack of career progression opportunities
- Inefficient delegation
- Lack of regulation, professional closure and identity