Description

* A thoughtful and insightful textbook introduction to how health policy is made. * Pays attention to the social and political processes which structure what decisions are taken about health policy. This new textbook opens up the policy-making process for students, uncovering how government decisions around health are really made. Starting from more traditional insights into how ministers and civil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and money, the book goes on to challenge the conception of policy as a rational process, revealing it to be something quite different. Knee-jerk reactions to disasters, keeping voters satisfied, the powerful leverage of interest groups, and the skewing of debate through ideology and the media are each considered in turn. These processes render policy far from rational or at least require a much broader approach for considering policy ‘logic’, one that is open to different rationalities of values, norms and pragmatism. The book draws on historical and contemporary examples to highlight that though challenges to policy-makers may seem in some ways novel, in many senses key processes endure and indeed are rooted in historical contexts. Although the examples are drawn from UK health and social care, the book’s theory-driven approach is applicable across national contexts Ð especially for countries where uncertainty, risk and resource pressures create significant dilemmas for policy-makers. The book’s multi-perspective, thematic approach will be especially relevant to students, as will the broad range of case study examples used. Making Health Policy will be essential reading for students of health policy, social policy, social work, and the sociology of medicine, health and illness.

Langue

en

Version

Broché

Date de sortie initiale

02 décembre 2011

Nombre de pages

208

Illustrations

Non

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal

Andy Alaszewski

Deuxième auteur

Patrick Brown

Coauteur

Patrick Brown

Editeur principal

Polity Press

Informations sur le fabricant

Nom du fabricant

Wiley-VCH GmbH

Adresse du fabricant

Boschstrasse 12 | 69469| Weinheim| DE

Adresse électronique du fabricant

product_safety@wiley.com

Autres spécifications

Hauteur de l’emballage

226 mm

Hauteur du produit

25 mm

Largeur d’emballage

154 mm

Largeur du produit

152 mm

Livre d‘étude

Non

Longueur d’emballage

22 mm

Longueur du produit

229 mm

Poids de l’emballage

445 g

Police de caractères extra large

Non

Édition

1

EAN

EAN

9780745641744

Sécurité des produits

Opérateur économique responsable dans l’UE

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Hommes et société

Médecine et Soins infirmiers

Médecine générale

Politique

Services de santé

Autorités centrales et fédérales

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Livre

Disponibilité

Disponible à l’adresse suivante

Langue

Anglais

Type de livre

Paperback