Medical doctors in health reforms : a comparative study of England and Canada /

Health and legal experts from England and Canada consider the influence of medical doctors on reforms in this comparative study. With reflections on participation since the inception of publicly-funded healthcare systems, they show how the status of doctors affects change.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Authors: Denis, Jean-Louis (Author), Germain, Sabrina (Author), Régis, Catherine, 1976- (Author), Veronesi, Gianluca (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Bristol, UK : Policy Press, 2022.
Series:Sociology of health professions.
Subjects:
Health care reform > England.
Health care reform > Canada.
Medical policy > England > Citizen participation.
Medical policy > Canada > Citizen participation.
Physicians > Political activity > England.
Physicians > Political activity > Canada.
Health Care Reform.
Health Policy.
Physicians.
Services de santé > Réforme > Angleterre.
Services de santé > Réforme > Canada.
Médecins > Activité politique > Angleterre.
Médecins > Activité politique > Canada.
MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery.
Health care reform.
Medical policy > Citizen participation.
Physicians > Political activity.
England.
Canada.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Half Title
  • Series page
  • Medical Coctors in Health Reforms: A Comparative Study of England
  • Copyright information
  • Table of contents
  • List of abbreviations
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Editors' overview
  • Introduction: Medical doctors and healthcare reforms
  • Setting the scene: reforms in contemporary healthcare systems
  • The players: agency in healthcare reforms
  • The medical profession as an agent of reform
  • Governments or states as agents of reform
  • Policy instruments and the agency of governments in healthcare reforms
  • Distal and proximal context variables
  • Agency in healthcare reforms
  • 1 Theoretical framework
  • Agency in context: legal and political dimensions
  • Law as a context for the expression of agency in healthcare reforms
  • Politics as an enabling and constraining context for healthcare reforms
  • Context and reforms
  • Sociological and organisational perspectives on the role of medical doctors in healthcare reforms
  • Status and roles of professions
  • The essentialist or taxonomic approach to the study of professions
  • The profession as an achievement: a processual approach to the study of professions
  • Institutional context and the agentic capacities of professionals
  • Processes of change and accommodation within professions and organisational fields
  • Organisations, professions and reforms
  • Theoretical model for comparative study of the role of medical doctors in healthcare reforms
  • Notes
  • 2 Research methodology: tracking the role of medical doctors in healthcare reforms
  • Selection of the case studies in England and Canada
  • Data sources
  • Data analysis
  • Methodological reasoning and analytical logics
  • 3 The role of medical doctors in healthcare reforms in two Canadian provinces
  • Part 1: Québec case narrative
  • The 'prehistory': healthcare prior to the creation of Medicare, 1940-71
  • Getting organised: pillars of the Québec Medicare structure
  • The implementation game, 1971-80
  • Strain and conflict, 1980-90
  • Tensions and flirtations in medical policy, 1990-2000
  • Collaboration and confrontation, 2000-13
  • Doctors in the driver's seat, 2014-18
  • Part 2: Québec case analysis
  • The 'prehistory': healthcare prior to the creation of Medicare, 1940-71
  • The influence of context: drivers and shapers of medical politics
  • Strategies used by the protagonists to deal with the evolving context
  • Implications for medical politics and healthcare reforms
  • The implementation game, 1971-80
  • The influence of context: drivers and shapers of medical politics
  • Strategies used by the protagonists to accommodate and deal with the evolving context
  • Implications for medical politics and healthcare reforms
  • Strain and conflict: learning to dance in step, 1980-90

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