Understanding Health Policy

This fully updated edition of a bestselling book explores the processes and institutions that make health policy, examining what constitutes health policy, where power lies, and what changes could be made to improve the quality of health policy making.

List of contents

Analysing health policy; Party politics and health; Central government and health policy; Parliament and health policy; The media and health; Pressure groups and health policy; Health policy and the NHS; Partnerships and health policy; Health policy and devolution; The international context of UK health policy; Conclusion.

About the author

Rob Baggott is Professor of Public Policy and Director of the Health Policy Research Unit at De Montfort University, Leicester

Summary

This fully updated edition of a bestselling book explores the processes and institutions that make health policy, examining what constitutes health policy, where power lies, and what changes could be made to improve the quality of health policy making.

Product details

• Authors: Rob Baggott, Rob (Health Policy Research Unit Baggott
• Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 15.03.2015
• EAN: 9781447300113
• ISBN: 978-1-4473-0011-3
• No. of pages: 304
• Series: Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice Series; Understanding Welfare: Social; Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice Series; Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice; Understanding Welfare: Social Issues, Policy and Practice
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > Social education, social work; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > General; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political system