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Making Health Policy: A Critical Introduction
Andy Alaszewski
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Description for Making Health Policy: A Critical Introduction
Hardback. * A thoughtful and insightful textbook introduction to how health policy is made. * Pays attention to the social and political processes which structure what decisions are taken about health policy. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: JPQB; MBP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 235 x 157 x 29. Weight in Grams: 566.
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 and civil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and money, the book goes on to challenge the conception of policy as a rational process, revealing it to be something quite different.
Knee-jerk reactions to disasters, keeping voters satisfied, the powerful leverage of interest groups, and the skewing of debate through ideology and the media are each considered in turn. These processes render policy far from rational or at least ... Read more
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 and civil servants develop policy with limited knowledge and money, the book goes on to challenge the conception of policy as a rational process, revealing it to be something quite different.
Knee-jerk reactions to disasters, keeping voters satisfied, the powerful leverage of interest groups, and the skewing of debate through ideology and the media are each considered in turn. These processes render policy far from rational or at least ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780745641737
SKU
V9780745641737
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Andy Alaszewski
Andy Alaszewski is Professor of Health Policy at the University of Kent, Canterbury. Patrick Brown is Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of Amsterdam.
Reviews for Making Health Policy: A Critical Introduction
"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 ... Read more