The New Health Policy. [electronic resource].

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Published: Maidenhead : McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd., 2009.
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245 1 4 |a The New Health Policy.  |h [electronic resource]. 
260 |a Maidenhead :  |b McGraw-Hill International (UK) Ltd.,  |c 2009. 
300 |a 1 online resource (215 p.) 
505 0 |a Front Cover Page; Half Title Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents page; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; SERIES EDITOR'S INTRODUCTION; ABBREVIATIONS; 1 INTRODUCTION; 2 HEALTH SECTOR FUNDING AND ORGANIZATION; 3 HEALTH CARE QUALITY AND SAFETY; 4 HEALTH CARE INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY; 5 GOVERNANCE, PROFESSIONALISM AND PUBLIC PARTICIPATION; 6 PUBLIC HEALTH, HEALTH DETERMINANTS AND DISEASE CONTROL; 7 THE PRIVATE SECTOR; 8 CONCLUSION; References; Author Index; Subject Index; End Cover Page. 
520 |a Analyzes the issues that form the nucleus of the 'new health policy' agenda. This book offers a comprehensive picture of the health policy challenges facing contemporary developed world health systems, as well as the strategies for tackling these. It is suitable for students of health policy and health care. 
520 0 |a This is an excellent and accessible introduction to key current debates in health policy. It is enriched by deft comparative analysis and by the way Dr Gauld locates the study in the context of current ideological debates. Students will learn a lot from wrestling with the questions posed at the end of each chapter - and so will their teachers' - Paul Wilding, Emeritus Professor of Social Policy, University of Manchester, UK. This book analyzes the issues that form the nucleus of the emerging 'new health policy' agenda. Robin Gauld brings together in one volume a comprehensive picture of the health policy challenges facing contemporary developed world health systems, as well as the strategies for tackling these. Individual chapters, respectively, analyze: challenges in health care funding and organization; quality and patient safety; the application of information technology; clinical governance; the changing nature of professionalism and public involvement in health care planning; public health; and, the role of the private sector. 
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