This important new textbook provides comparative and critical analysis of healthcare policy from high income states in Europe to low-income countries in the Global South.

It integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology, policy analysis, and political science to offer a unique combination of theory, historical background, and wider social commentary. The book is divided into three sections:

• Section one establishes the conceptual basis for the analysis of the health policy-making process, including implementation.
• Section two provides an introduction to the key elements of conducting a comparative health system's analysis, including chapters that provide examples of performance analysis in both high and low-income countries.
• Section Three examines key challenges now facing health policy makers that include long-term social care provision, widening the scope of public health to address social inequalities in health outcome, the integration of genomic medicine within the NHS and the establishment of an effective pharmaceutical policy to provide the cost-effective medicines required by the health system.

Each chapter includes case studies, historical contexts, and summaries of the key policy. Detailed and clearly written, it is the ideal text for students across the health and social sciences in this important area.

About the Author

Iain Crinson has been teaching, researching, and publishing in the field of the sociology of health and health policy for over three decades. For much of this time he has been based at St Georges, University of London.

Book Information
ISBN 9781032916217
Author Iain Crinson
Format Hardback
Page Count 304
Imprint Routledge
Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd