Private complaints and public health - Richard Titmuss on the National Health Service (Paperback, New)

Richard Titmuss was one of the twentieth century's foremost social policy theorists. This accessible Reader is the first compendium of his work on public health, health promotion and health inequalities. like its predecessor, Welfare and wellbeing (The Policy Press, 2001), is important in bringing the work of this highly influential thinker to the attention of a new generation of social policy students and policy makers. It also enhances current debates about how complex societies can best provide for the health of all their citizens. include: the differences between private and public health care systems; relationships between health care provision and the values underlying social policy; debates between health care 'experts' and consumers; health and social inequalities; personal and social meanings of health. explicit links between Titmuss's work and key issues of concern in health policy today. social policy and health, policy makers and planners in the health service, analysts of health care and social policy, and for historians with a particular interest in the origins of the NHS.

General

Imprint:	Policy Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	June 2004
First published:	2004
Editors:	Ann Oakley • Jonathan Barker
Dimensions:	240 x 172 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	256
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-1-86134-560-8
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Medicine > General issues > Health systems & services > General Promotions
LSN:	1-86134-560-7
Barcode:	9781861345608

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