Summary
Contents
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This book provides a critical assessment of developments in health and healthcare policy. Primarily focusing on the UK, the chapters cover issues such as the policy-making process; the development of the NHS; health care governance; health promotion; and the comparative analysis of health care systems within the EU and US. Each chapter brings together social and political themes to offers a unique combination of theory, historical detail, and wider social commentary.
Studying Health Policy
Studying Health Policy
Chapter Contents
- Introduction
- What is a ‘policy’?
- Defining the characteristics of public policy
- Scoping the field of health policy analysis
- Conceptual frameworks in the analysis of health policy
- ‘Power’ as a key concept for critical health policy analysis
Introduction
Where there was once a broad agreement about the main constituents of the study of health policy, many of these assumptions are today subject to dispute. In introducing the reader to the field of health policy studies, ...
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