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Critical perspectives on mental health.
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ISBN: 1857288807 1857288793 Year: 2000 Publisher: London Routledge

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Over the last forty years, there have been numerous attempts to critique the theory and practice of mental health care. Taking its lead from anti-psychiatry, Critical Perspectives on Mental Health seeks to explore and evaluate the claims of mainstream mental health ideologies and to establish what implications the critiques of these perspectives have for practice. This text will be essential reading for students and those working in the social work and mental health care professions. Using the British mental health services as a case study, this book critically reviews the various social, political and intellectual developments which have shaped psychiatric practice and the delivery of mental health services.

Dead on arrival
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ISBN: 1282087223 128293533X 9786612935336 9786612087226 1400825679 0691058067 0691119511 9781400825677 9780691058061 Year: 2003 Publisher: Princeton, N.J.

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Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business, and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven story of political failure and private response. He examines, in turn, the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the ongoing confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests. Dead on Arrival stands alone in accounting for the failure of national or universal health policy from the early twentieth century to the present. As importantly, it also suggests how various interests (doctors, hospitals, patients, workers, employers, labor unions, medical reformers, and political parties) confronted the question of health care--as a private responsibility, as a job-based benefit, as a political obligation, and as a fundamental right. Using health care as a window onto the logic of American politics and American social provision, Gordon both deepens and informs the contemporary debate. Fluidly written and deftly argued, Dead on Arrival is thus not only a compelling history of the health care quandary but a fascinating exploration of the country's political economy and political culture through "the American century," of the role of private interests and private benefits in the shaping of social policy, and, ultimately, of the ways the American welfare state empowers but also imprisons its citizens.

Markets and medicine : the politics of health care reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States
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ISBN: 1282437739 9786612437731 0472023527 9780472023523 0472112716 9781282437739 6612437731 9780472112715 Year: 2002 Publisher: Ann Arbor [Mich.] : University of Michigan Press,

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Are advanced industrialized countries converging on a market response to reform their systems of social protection? By comparing the health care reform experiences of Britain, Germany, and the United States in the 1990s, Susan Giaimo explores how countries pursue diverse policy responses and how such variations reflect distinctive institutions, actors, and reform politics in each country. In Britain, the Thatcher government's plan to inject a market into the state-administered national health service resulted in a circumscribed experiment orchestrated from above. In Germany, the Kohl government sought to repair defects in the corporatist arrangement with doctors and insurers, thus limiting the market experiment and designing it to enhance the solidarity of the national health insurance system. In the United States, private market actors foiled Clinton's bid to expand the federal government's role in the private health care system through managed competition and national insurance. But market reform continued, albeit led by private employers and with government officials playing a reactive role. Actors and institutions surrounding the existing health care settlement in each country created particular reform politics that either militated against or fostered the deployment of competition. The finding that major transformations are occurring in private as well as public systems of social protection suggests that studies of social policy change expand their focus beyond statutory welfare state programs. The book will interest political scientists and policymakers concerned with welfare state reform in advanced industrial societies, social scientists interested in the changing balance among state, market, and societal interests in governance, and health policy researchers, health policymakers, and health care professionals.


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Algemene economie van de gezondheidszorg : leerboek voor universitair en hoger beroepsonderwijs en managementopleidingen
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ISBN: 903522051X Year: 1999 Publisher: Maarssen Elsevier/De Tijdstroom

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'Algemene Economie van de gezondheidszorg' gaat onder meer in op de specifieke kenmerken van vraag en aanbod in de gezondheidszorg, de beoordeling van de doelmatigheid van de zorgverlening en de effecten van marktordening van de zorgsector. De auteurs geven voorbeelden uit de praktijk en bespreken nationaal en internationaal onderzoek. Daarmee krijgt de lezer een goed en actueel beeld van de kennis op het terrein van de gezondheidseconomie en de relevantie daarvan voor de Nederlandse gezondheidszorg. Elk hoofdstuk wordt afgesloten met oefenvragen om het inzicht van de lezer te testen.


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La Santé : un enjeu de société.
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ISBN: 9782912601933 2912601932 Year: 2010 Publisher: Auxerre Sciences Humaines Editions

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De nombreux domaines de la vie sont concernés par la santé. Cet ouvrage donne la parole aux spécialistes de diverses disciplines : historiens, sociologues, économistes de la santé, psychologues, médecins, infirmiers, ... Il s'adresse à tous, du particulier, soucieux de mieux comprendre une question centrale de nos existences, aux professionnels désireux de nourrir leur réflexion sur un domaine en perpétuel changement. Il entend ainsi être un outil de référence pour tous.

Santé: pour une révolution sans réforme.
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ISBN: 2070755428 9782070755424 Year: 1999 Publisher: [Paris] Gallimard

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Quatre grandes réformes de la Sécurité sociale depuis 1945, un plan d'«équilibre» de l'assurance maladie tous les dix-huit mois depuis 1970, un nouveau ministre de la Santé tous les vingt mois, des médecins mécontents, des infirmières en grève, des hôpitaux qui ferment, des cotisations sociales qui explosent, des Français qui limitent, faute de ressources, leur accès aux soins : sous des aspects toujours nouveaux, les problèmes de la santé occupent de manière lancinante le devant de la scène politique.Ce livre ne se contente pas de passer en revue les composantes du système et d'en inventorier les contradictions, les blocages et les absurdités. Il démonte les origines de la situation inextricable où nous sommes enferrés. Il éclaire, à l'aide de comparaisons internationales, les voies possibles du changement et les fausses solutions, comme la privatisation.La conclusion de Jean de Kervasdoué est sans ambiguïté. Il n'existe d'autre issue qu'une «révolution sans réforme». Il en définit la méthode.

Le système de santé en France.
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ISBN: 2130474500 9782130474500 Year: 1999 Volume: 3066 Publisher: Paris PUF

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Une première partie présente les acteurs du système de santé français d'un point de vue institutionnel: tutelle, entreprises et personnels de santé, organismes de protection sociale. Une deuxième partie décrit les règles de fonctionnement et les résultats en termes de consommation et de financement. Avec des données chiffrées de 1995.

Santé publique du biopouvoir à la démocratie.
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ISBN: 2859527745 9782859527747 Year: 1999 Publisher: Rennes ENSP

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L'ambition de ce livre est de proposer une "critique de la raison politique" en santé publique. Comment penser la santé aujourd'hui, a fortiori la santé publique, face au développement de ce "biopouvoir" déjà identifié par Michel Foucault? Sommes-nous condamnés au meilleur des mondes sanitaires et à l'eugénisme "démocratique"? Le politique doit-il se contenter de gérer le système et de parer aux risques entraînés par l'industrie? Face à la tyrannie de l'expert, les auteurs souhaitent redonner toute leur place au "sujet désirant" et au citoyen. Mais le sujet ne veut pas toujours son "bien", et le citoyen se dérobe trop souvent aux responsabilités du vivre ensemble...

Philosophical problems in health care.
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ISBN: 1859722229 Year: 1996 Publisher: Aldershot Avebury

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A collection of essays that cover a range of topics of relevance to health care professionals. The book is intended to fill a gap between introductory texts on medical ethics and in-depth specialized books. It shows the importance of combining philosophical and ethical discussion.

A world growing old
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ISBN: 0585225486 9780585225487 1589012275 9781589012271 0878406328 0878405917 9780878405916 9780878406326 Year: 1995 Publisher: Washington, D.C. Georgetown University Press

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For much of the developed world, health care for a surging elderly population looms as one of the most daunting problems of the coming decade. In this book, contributors from diverse disciplinary backgrounds and countries discuss resource allocation for the elderly and debate plans for the years ahead. Essays focus on five general issues: the meaning of old age, the goals of medicine and health care for the elderly, the balance between the needs of the young and old, the pressures of other social priorities, and the role of families, especially the burden on women, in long-term care. In consideration of the difficult moral and practical issues involved, the editors conclude the volume with a special report containing policy recommendations from representatives of eight countries (the United States, Belgium, the Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, the Netherlands, Sweden, and the United Kingdom). This important volume will be of interest to policymakers and a broad spectrum of health care professionals, as well as to anyone interested in the fate of the elderly or in coming health care challenges.

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