Health Care Reform and Globalisation: The Us, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138024076 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 218 str.

Peggy Watson

Opis

This innovative book provides a timely analysis addressing radical health care change in the context of post-Cold War globalization.

Recenzje

'Compelling and thought-provoking' - Significance

'An excellent collection of rigorous and thought-provoking papers written by some of the leading experts and presented in a highly accessible format. It will be of interest to scholars and practitioners in many fields, including public health.’ – Critical Public Health

‘This is a valuable and well-chosen collection of articles which illustrates the global nature of developments in health care.’ – London Progressive Journal

Spis treści

Introduction Peggy Watson  Chapter 1. Producing Public Opinion: How the Insurance Industry Shaped US Health Care  Wendell Potter  Chapter 2. The Break-up of the NHS: Implications for Information Systems  Allyson Pollock and David Price  Chapter 3. Rethinking Problems Surrounding Access to Care: The Moral Economies Shaping Health Care Work Forces in Russia and the U.S. Michele Rivkin-Fish  Chapter 4: Human Oriented? Angels And Monsters in China’s Healthcare Reform  Mei Zhan  Chapter 5: We Are All In This Together - European Policies And Health Systems Change  Meri Koivusalo  Chapter 6: Catastrophic Citizenship and Discourses of Disguise: Aspects of Health Care Change in Poland  Peggy Watson  Chapter 7: The Making of Health Care Policy in Contemporary Hungary  Terry Cox and Sandor Gallai  Chapter 8: Community Health Services in Urban China: A Geographical Case Study of Access to Care  Yu Wang, Tanghong Jia, Jinghui Zhang, Yunli Zhang, Wen Li and Robert Haining  Chapter 9: ‘Health Care and Change’: Popular Protest and Building Alternative Visions of Health Systems at the End of Empire  Howard Waitzkin and Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar

O autorze

Peggy Watson is at the Department of Sociology, University of Cambridge, and a Fellow of Homerton College, Cambridge, UK.