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Health Politics and Policy (Hardcover, Four-Volume Set ed.)
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Health Politics and Policy (Hardcover, Four-Volume Set ed.)
Series: Sage Library of Political Science
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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.
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