The New Health Policy

Authors:

Robin Gauld

Brand: Open University Press

ISBN: 9780335229024

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This is an excellent and accessible introduction to key current debates in health policy. It is enriched by deft comparative analysis and by the way Dr Gauld locates the study in the context of current ideological debates. Students will learn a lot from wrestling with the questions posed at the end of each chapter – and so will their teachers!
Paul Wilding, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Manchester, UK

This book analyzes the issues that form the nucleus of the emerging ‘new health policy agenda. Robin Gauld brings together in one volume a comprehensive picture of the health policy challenges facing contemporary developed world health systems, as well as the strategies for tackling these.

Individual chapters, respectively, analyze::

Challenges in health care funding and organization
Quality and patient safety
The application of information technology
Clinical governance
The changing nature of professionalism and public involvement in health care planning
Public health
The role of the private sector

The book highlights the importance to policy makers of each subject, overviews research into it, and discusses policy responses in Britain, New Zealand and the United States.

The New Health Policy is essential reading for all students of health policy and health care, along with policy makers and health care professionals.

Product Details

Brand Open University Press

Reference 46469

EAN13 9780335229024

ISBN 9780335229024

Data sheet

Publication date: 2009
Issue number: 1
Cover: hard cover
Pages count: 192
Dimensions (mm): 142 x 224
Weight (g): 400

Chapter 1:: Introduction
Chapter 2:: Health sector funding and organization
Chapter 3:: Health care quality and safety
Chapter 4:: Health care information and communications technology
Chapter 5:: Governance, professionalism and public participation
Chapter 6:: Public health, health determinants and disease control
Chapter 7:: The private sector
Conclusion