Navigating Private and Public Healthcare: Experiences of Patients, Doctors and Policy-Makers - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 9813292075 ISBN 13 : 9789813292079

Editeur : Springer Verlag, Singapore, 2019

Synopsis

Introduction.- PART ONE: ABOUT THE SYSTEM-UNIVERSALISM AND PRIVATISATION.- Chapter One. Universalism in Healthcare and Social Citizenship in Chile, Uruguay and Costa Rica.- Chapter Two. Privatisation and Marketisation within a Healthcare System: The Swedish Experience.- PART TWO: THE INSTITUTIONS OF HEALTH.- Chapter Three. 'Looking Outside Their Walls': Exploring Community Health in Chicago Hospitals.- Chapter Four. Contracting-out Care: Nursing Homes in Canada.- PART THREE: GATEKEEPERS IN THE SYSTEM.- Chapter Five. Gatekeepers in a Mixed Private/Public System.- Chapter Six. Creeping Privatisation? Examining Procurement Choices in the 'New' NHS in England.- PART FOUR: THE HEALTHCARE PROFESSIONALS.- Chapter Seven. Safeguarding Through Work Arounds: Socio-materiality and the Organising of Care in a Private Hospital.- Chapter Eight. Reducing Healthcare Costs in Portugal: Outcomes and Implications for Public and Private Medicine.- Chapter Nine. Promoting Health as a Form of Capital: The Transformation of the Danish Healthcare Field as Experienced By Private Healthcare Professionals.- PART FIVE: PATIENTS, CONSUMERS AND CITIZENS.- Chapter Ten. The Imperative of Choice in Australian Healthcare.- Chapter Eleven. The Marketisation of Aged Care: The Impact of Aged Care Reform in Australia.- CONCLUSION.- Chapter Twelve. Navigating Private and Public Healthcare.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Fran Collyer is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Sydney. Her current projects focus on the history and impact of Australian sociology, the growth of private medicine and the inequalities of global networks of expert knowledge. Recent books include Knowledge and Global Power (2019); and the Palgrave Handbook of Social Theory in Health, Illness and Medicine (2015).
Karen Willis is Professor in the School of Allied Health at La Trobe University and at Melbourne Health. Willis is joint editor-in-chief of Health Sociology Review, and her research focuses on how choices are made between private and public healthcare, and interaction with healthcare professionals. Willis has published Society, Culture and Health (in two editions) and is an active user of Twitter (@KarenWillis19) to promote debate in health sociology.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Springer Verlag, Singapore
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 9813292075
• ISBN 13: 9789813292079
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 329
• Éditeur: Collyer Fran, Willis Karen
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