Navigating Private and Public Healthcare (eBook)

Experiences of Patients, Doctors and Policy-Makers

Fran Collyer, Karen Willis (Herausgeber)

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2019 | 1st ed. 2020
XXV, 304 Seiten
Springer Singapore (Verlag)
978-981-329-208-6 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited collection focuses on the global growth of privatisation and private sector medicine in both developed and lesser developed countries, and the impact of this on patients, health workers, managers and policy-makers. Drawing upon sociological theories, concepts and insights, as well as experts from several countries with extensive experience in researching the field either nationally or internationally, the collection offers a unique perspective on healthcare services and healthcare systems: a view from those trying to access healthcare services, working inside health systems, or responsible for managing and organising services. Collectively, the chapters contribute an international perspective on the navigation of healthcare systems, and addresses the growing salience of 'choice' between public and private medicine in a variety of different national systems and contexts.

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.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 30.11.2019
• Zusatzinfo: XXV, 304 p. 3 illus.
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Studium ► 1. Studienabschnitt (Vorklinik) ► Med. Psychologie / Soziologie
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: 2010 Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act • Aged Care Reform in Australia • Australian healthcare • community health needs assessment (CHNA) • Healthcare • healthcare workers • health consumers • inequality in health care • Local and National Governmental Hospitals in Japan • National Survey of Physicians in Portugal • NDIS • NHS • Nordic Health Care system • private sector medicine • Privatisation • Swedish healthcare system • universal health care systems
• ISBN-10: 981-329-208-3 / 9813292083
• ISBN-13: 978-981-329-208-6 / 9789813292086