Comparative health policy and the new right : from rhetoric to reality
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Comparative health policy and the new right : from rhetoric to reality
Macmillan, 1991
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Economic circumstances in each country in the 1980s explain the particular pressures placed on policy makers for developing solutions to old and new health problems. Their responses have been political solutions and compromises. The primacy of cultural and political forces over economics and "scientific" knowledge and research shaping policy content and practical solutions and compromises, remains unabated. The chapters point to a considerable gap between the rhetoric of the New Right and policy reality. Health policy remains governed by a social welfare perspective. It touches on every aspect of human experience from the cradle to the grave and health is a precondition to human happiness. The book will be of value to practitioners and scholars in comparative public policy and administration, comparative politics, social policy, health and social services administration, social work and the political economy of the welfare state and management and business.
Table of Contents
- Liberalism in the Dirigiste state - a changing public/private mix in French medical care, Paul Godt
- health policy and the Christian-liberal coalition in West Germany - the conflicts over the health insurance reform, 1987-1988, Douglas Webber
- privatization from within - the National Health Service under Thatcher, Wendy Renade and Stuart C.Haywood
- Nordic health policy in the 1980s, Richard B.Saltman
- health care policy in Eastern Europe - regulatory conservativism under socialism?, William A.Welsh
- heart disease in Israel - curative or preventive policy?, Yael Yishai
- two streams of conservativism under the Reagan administration, William P.Brendon
- health policy under conservative governments in Canada, Prenlal Manga and Geoffrey R.Weller
- health policies in the Conservative transition to democracy in Brazil, Sonia Maria Fleury Teixeira
- medical care security and the vitality of the private sector in Japan, William E.Steelicke
- grains among the Chaff-Rhetoric and reality in comparative health policy, James W.Bjorkman.
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