Research Catalog

Title

Reforming health care : the philosophy and practice of international health reform / edited by David Seedhouse.

Publication

Chichester ; New York : J. Wiley, c1995.

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Details

Additional Authors

Seedhouse, David.

Description

x, 242 p. : ill.; 25 cm.

Summary

• Health reform has become a permanent feature of public debate. But all trends have their day, and any genuine reform process must come to an end. How will the '90s health reforms turn out? Will the public enjoy highly cost-effective health systems offering the best available health benefits? Or are the health reforms bound to fail?
• To study health reform it is essential to know what is actually happening to and within various health systems, and this volume includes comprehensive articles on health reform in the USA, the UK, Holland, South Africa, New Zealand and Eastern Europe. But to be aware of the facts alone is not enough. Philosophical questions must be addressed if health reform is to be explored in any depth. What, for instance, is health reform?
• What are - and what ought to be - the typical goals of the health reform process? And by what criteria are the success or failure of health reform to be assessed? Reforming Health Care offers the reader a grasp of both the practical detail and the theoretical fundamentals of health reform, and shows that it is only by understanding the logical structure of reform that burgeoning health reform initiatives can be properly managed.

Subject

• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Health Care Reform > standards
• Health Care Reform > trends
• Health Promotion
• Health care reform
• Health promotion
• National Health Programs

Genre/Form

Collected Work.

Note

• Most chapters reprinted with modifications from the journal Health care analysis.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Introduction: The Logic of Health Reform / David Seedhouse -- Ch. 1. Health Care Reform in the United States / Chris Hackler -- Ch. 2. Oregon's Experiment / Michael Brannigan -- Ch. 3. Health Care Reform in the United States: Clinton or Canada? Part One: The Clinton Reform Plan's Administrative Structure: The Reach and the Grasp / Larry Brown and Theodore R. Marmor. Part Two: Patterns of Fact and Fiction in the Use of Canadian Experience / Theodore R. Marmor -- Ch. 4. Health Care Reform in the UK: Working for Patients? / David Gladstone and Michael Goldsmith -- Ch. 5. From Evolution to Revolution: Restructuring the New Zealand Health System / Toni Ashton -- Ch. 6. Choosing Core Health Services in The Netherlands / Henk A. M. J. ten Have -- Ch. 7. Reforming Health Care in South Africa / Michael Simpson -- Ch. 8. Health Care in Lithuania: From Idealism to Reality? / Eugenijus Gefenas --
• Ch. 9. Going Off the Dole: A Prudential and Ethical Critique of the 'Healthfare' State / Stuart F. Spicker -- Ch. 10. Health Reform and the Utopian Ideology of the New Right / Michael Loughlin -- Ch. 11. Of Markets, Technology, Patients and Profits / Erich H. Loewy -- Ch. 12. Communitarian Illusions: Or Why the Dutch Proposal for Setting Priorities in Health Care Must Fail / Theo van Willigenburg -- Ch. 13. Who should be Responsible for a Nation's Health? / Viola Schubert-Lehnhardt -- Ch. 14. A Turn for the Better? Philosophical Issues in Evaluating Health Care Reforms / Alan Cribb -- Ch. 15. On the Nature and Ethics of Health Promotion. An Attempt at a Systematic Analysis / Lennart Nordenfelt -- Ch. 16. The Borders of Health Promotion / Alan Cribb -- Ch. 17. Bad Faith and Victim-blaming: The Limits of Health Promotion / Charles J. Dougherty -- Ch. 18. The Purpose-Process Gap in Health Promotion / Ian Buchanan -- Conclusion Theory before Practice? / David Seedhouse.

ISBN

0471953253

LCCN

94044374

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries