Health Politics and Policy (SAGE Library of Political Science) - Image 1

Price loading...

Sage Publications Health Politics and Policy (SAGE Library of Political Science)

Name: Health Politics and Policy (SAGE Library of Political Science)
Brand: Sage Publications

Illustrations

General Medical Issues

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price history will appear here once data is collected from Amazon.

Price Distribution

No price data available for histogram

Description

The last half of the 20th century witnessed explosive growth in science and technology in the developed world, including extraordinary developments in medicine. As medicine′s capacity and complexity has grown, so has the popular sense that health care is a right and that the political system should deliver the care. Today, political systems grapple with every imaginable facet of health and health care, from educating and regulating the health workforce to creating systems to pay for the cost of care; from setting and funding the biomedical research agenda to determining who gets what care, when; from clinical preventive services to broader agendas for promoting population health. Although many of these questions seem economic in nature, they are inescapably political questions regarding the authoritative allocation of resources in response to the contention of values and ideas. This major reference collection shines a bright light on health politics. The editors have organized and introduced some of the best of the canon of health politics literature in four volumes covering political analysis of the emergence and shape of health systems, public perceptions of government′s responsibility to assure the delivery of care, health care in a comparative perspective, and the politics of health reform. Volume One: Defining Health Systems - Path Dependence and Policy Emergence contains articles that emphasize critical perspectives on the development of given health system structures, with particular attention to the choices, and the paths that led to those choices, in favour of systems driven by private sectors (such as that of the United States) and systems that are more explicitly public (such as the European systems). Volume Two: Tensions in Health Policy - Ethics, Interests, and the Public treats health and health care broadly, including considerations of questions about the meaning of assertions to a "right" to health, the role of prevention in individual and public health, and contentious health care questions such as those surrounding stem cell research and reproductive rights. Volume Three: Health Systems in Comparative Perspective includes articles that illustrate global differences in the politics and policy of health care. Volume Four: the Contemporary Politics of Health System Reform examines the politics of health reform, including articles that address reform proposals as the sources of political conflict they inevitably are.

Product Specifications

Brand: Sage Publications
Model: Illustrations
Format: hardcover
Pack Size: 4 items
ASIN: 1849205027
Category: Books > Subjects > Health, Family & Lifestyle > Medical & Healthcare Practitioners > General Medical Issues
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 19 January 2011
Listed Since: 30 June 2010

Barcode

No barcode data available

Sage Publications Health Politics and Policy (SAGE Library of Political Science)

Price History & Forecast

No Price Data Available

Price Distribution

Description

Product Specifications

Barcode

Similar Products You Might Like

The Politics of Healthcare in Britain

Sage Publications - The Politics of Healthcare in Britain

Debates on U.S. Health Care

Health Care and Public Policy

Guide to U.S. Health and Health Care Policy

The Political Economy of Health and Healthcare: The Rise of the Patient Citizen

Health Policy for Health Care Professionals

The Routledge Handbook of the Political Economy of Health and Healthcare (Routledge International Handbooks)

The Changing Federal Role in U.S. Health Care Policy

Health Policy: A Critical Perspective

Routledge Health Policy and Politics - NHS Policy Analysis

Health Care Politics, Policy, and Services: A Social Justice Analysis

Health Policy in Asia: A Policy Design Approach (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy)

Policy Innovation for Health

Why are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health Populations (Social Institutions and Social Change)

Policy Innovation for Health

Health Politics and Policy (Mindtap Course List)

Health Care Policy In East Asia: A World Scientific Reference (In 4 Volumes): 6 (World Scientific Series in Global Health Economics and Public Policy)

Reforming Healthcare Systems: 1-2 (Elgar Mini Series)

Healthy or Sick?: Coevolution of Health Care and Public Health in a Comparative Perspective (Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy)

Ethical Dimensions Of Health Policy

Routledge Health Care Policy and Opinion in US and Canada

Making Health Policy: A Critical Introduction

The Politics of Healthcare Reform in Turkey