Making Health Policy

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This new textbook opens up the policy-making process for students,uncovering how government decisions around health are really made.Starting from more traditional insights into how ministers andcivil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and money, thebook goes on to challenge the conception of policy as a rationalprocess, revealing it to be something quite different. Knee-jerk reactions to disasters, keeping voters satisfied, thepowerful leverage of interest groups, and the skewing of debatethrough ideology and the media are each considered in turn. Theseprocesses render policy far from rational or at least require amuch broader approach for considering policy 'logic',one that is open to different rationalities of values, norms andpragmatism. The book draws on historical and contemporary examplesto highlight that though challenges to policy-makers may seem insome ways novel, in many senses key processes endure and indeed arerooted in historical contexts. Although the examples are drawn fromUK health and social care, the book's theory-driven approachis applicable across national contexts D especially forcountries where uncertainty, risk and resource pressures createsignificant dilemmas for policy-makers. The book's multi-perspective, thematic approach will beespecially relevant to students, as will the broad range of casestudy examples used. Making Health Policy will be essentialreading for students of health policy, social policy, social work,and the sociology of medicine, health and illness.

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Andy Alaszewski

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Gesundheitspolitik Gesundheitspolitik, Risiken, Sicherheit des Patienten Health Policy, Health Risk & Patient Safety Medical Science Medizin

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"This readable and accessible book provides many novel insights into the policy-making process, a broad span of well-chosen historical and contemporary health examples, and a range of perspectives to consider in relation to the analysis of health policy making." Health Sociology Review "This introductory text offers a novel approach to health policy making, challenging the conception of policy as a rational process. Written in an accessible style it is essential reading for undergraduate students of health policy." Jonathan Gabe, Royal Holloway, University of London "This book should be essential reading for any student interested in engaging with and critically reflecting on how health policy is shaped in contemporary society. Drawing on well chosen historical and contemporary examples, Making Health Policy engages with the complex, contingent, and contested arena of health policy making. Students will find the valuable insights provided in this book enormously useful in understanding contemporary and ongoing debates around the fashioning of health policy." Nick Emmel, University of Leeds "Alaszewski and Brown's historical reach and deep understanding of health policy going back 30 years makes this a highly readable, original, insightful and well-informed study that also manages to be remarkably up-to-date. Recommended reading for everyone interested in how health policy gets made and why it doesn't always happen as intended." David J. Hunter, Durham University
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