Health
Policy and Politics:
Networks, Ideas and Power
Short
table of contents
Preface
Chapter 1
Analysing health policy and politics
Chapter 2
Institutions and health systems: The circuitry of health policy
Chapter 3
Governance: interactions and health system reform
Chapter 4
Power and influence: Networks and health politics
Chapter 5
Professions: Expertise and authority in health policy
Chapter 6
Ideas: Paradigms and discourses in health policy
Chapter 7
Comparing relationships: The political authority of medicine and nursing
Chapter 8
Managed networks in action: Local partnerships for health
Chapter 9
Shaping the health policy agenda: Networks and policy issues
Chapter 10
Networks, ideas and power
Bibliography
Long table of contents
Preface
Chapter 1 Analysing health policy and politics
- Models of the policy process
- Networks as theory, networks as analytic technique
- Complexity
- Ideation
- Health policy
- The critical framework and the structure of the book
Chapter 2 Institutions and health systems: The circuitry of health policy
- Political institutions
- Structure of government
- Governmental systems
- Health system characteristics
- National health insurance in Australia and the Netherlands
- Financial indicators of health systems
- Paying for primary health care in Australia, the UK and the Netherlands
- Conclusions
Chapter 3
Governance: interactions and health system reform
Changing modes of governance
- Governance and health system reform
- Corporate management and market reforms
- Network reforms
- Containing the costs of health care – governance meets structure
- Conclusions
Chapter 4 Power and influence: Networks and health politics
- Interests in health politics
- Policy networks and social networks
- Networks of influence
- Influential actors in health policy
- The health policy network of influence
- Influential actors within the network
- Talking about networks
- Conclusions
Chapter 5 Professions: Expertise and authority in health policy
- ‘Trait’ approaches and the critical turn
- Comparative and state-centric approaches
- Systems of professions
- Professions other than medicine
- Authority and autonomy
- Contemporary challenges to the professions
- A conceptual model of profession
- Cultural authority
- Social authority
- Political authority
- Professional autonomy
- Conclusions
Chapter 6 Ideas: Paradigms and discourses in health policy
- Ideas and the policy process
- Deep structure ideation
- The biomedical paradigm
- Biomedicine and alternative models of health
- Medical authority and autonomy
- Ideas and policy change
- Impermeability – the social determinants of health (pre 2000)
- Incorporation – clinical scrutiny and evaluation
- Incorporation with modification – community health care
- Transformation – the social determinants of health (2000 and after)
- Conclusions
Chapter 7 Comparing relationships: The political authority of medicine and nursing
- Governing state-profession relationships
- Professions and gender
- Medicine and nursing in Australia, Britain and the Netherlands
- Australia – co-dependents and outsiders
- Britain – partners and adjuncts
- The Netherlands – corporate partners
- Conclusions
Chapter 8 Managed networks in action: Local partnerships for health Networks and partnerships
- Partnerships as managed networks
- Network management and effectiveness
- Partnerships in Britain
- Primary Care Partnerships in Victoria
- Westbay Alliance and Campaspe PCP
- Governance approach and roles in PCPs
- The impact of PCPs on health policy
- Conclusions
Chapter 9 Shaping the health policy agenda: Networks and policy issues
- Ideation and networks
- Important health policy issues in Victoria
- Inequalities in health/structural determinants
- Recruitment and retention of the health workforce
- Demand in public hospitals
- Disaggregation and fragmentation
- Lack of emphasis on prevention
- Improving the quality of care
- Issues and influential actors
- Conclusions
Chapter 10 Networks, ideas and power
- Understanding the circuitry of health policy
- Examining governance trends in health
- Exploring networks of influence in health
- Conceptualising health professions
- Analysing ideation and health
Bibliography