The Five Health Frontiers - A New Radical Blueprint

'A brilliant exposé' - Danny Dorling

Covid-19 has exposed the limits of a neoliberal public health orthodoxy. But instead of imagining radical change, the left is stuck in a rearguard action focused on defending the NHS from the wrecking ball of privatisation.

Public health expert Christopher Thomas argues that we must emerge from Covid-19 on the offensive - with a bold, new vision for our health and care. He maps out five new frontiers for public health and imagines how we can move beyond safeguarding what we have to a radical expansion of the principles put forward by Aneurin Bevan, the founder of the NHS, over 70 years ago.

Beyond recalibrating our approach to healthcare services, his blueprint includes a fundamental redesign of our economy through Public Health Net Zero; a bold new universal public health service fit to address the real causes of ill health; and a major recalibration in the efforts against the epidemiological reality of an era of pandemics.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Abbreviations

List of Tables

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1. The NHS Frontier

2. The Social Justice Frontier

3. The Economic Frontier

4. The Social Care Frontier

5. The Sustainability Frontier

6. The Public Health New Deal

Epilogue: Labour's Medicine

Notes

Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Christopher Thomas is principal health fellow at the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) and Head of the IPPR Commission on Health and Prosperity. He is co-editor of Progressive Review, a journal of ideas and politics. He regularly comments on health and care issues in print and broadcast media, and regularly writes in the Independent and the Times. Before working at IPPR, he led on public health and inequality at major charities including Macmillan Cancer Support and Cancer Research UK.

Zusammenfassung

A transformative approach to public health and social care in the wake of Covid-19

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Christopher Thomas, Christopher (Institute for Public Policy R Thomas, Christopher (Institute for Public Policy Research) Thomas
• Verlag: Pluto
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 31.01.2022
• EAN: 9780745343921
• ISBN: 978-0-7453-4392-1
• Seiten: 240
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Medizin > Allgemeines; Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Wirtschaft > Sonstiges; Epidemiology & medical statistics, HEALTH & FITNESS / Health Care Issues, MEDICAL / Health Policy, MEDICAL / Mental Health, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / Political Advocacy, Health economics, MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Economic Policy, MEDICAL / Epidemiology, Political activism, Mental health services, Political Economy, Welfare economics, Health systems & services, Health systems and services, Epidemiology and Medical statistics, Political activism / Political engagement