Health Politics and Policy

Four-Volume Set Auflage
ISBN: 978-1-84920-502-3
Verlag: Sage Publications

Buch, Englisch, 1528 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 2977 g

Reihe: SAGE Library of Political Science

The last half of the 20th century witnessed explosive growth in science and technology in the developed world, including extraordinary developments in medicine. As medicine's capacity and complexity has grown, so has the popular sense that health care is a right and that the political system should deliver the care. Today, political systems grapple with every imaginable facet of health and health care, from educating and regulating the health workforce to creating systems to pay for the cost of care; from setting and funding the biomedical research agenda to determining who gets what care, when; from clinical preventive services to broader agendas for promoting population health. Although many of these questions seem economic in nature, they are inescapably political questions regarding the authoritative allocation of resources in response to the contention of values and ideas. This major reference collection shines a bright light on health politics. The editors have organized and introduced some of the best of the canon of health politics literature in four volumes covering political analysis of the emergence and shape of health systems, public perceptions of government's responsibility to assure the delivery of care, health care in a comparative perspective, and the politics of health reform. Volume One: Defining Health Systems - Path Dependence and Policy Emergence contains articles that emphasize critical perspectives on the development of given health system structures, with particular attention to the choices, and the paths that led to those choices, in favour of systems driven by private sectors (such as that of the United States) and systems that are more explicitly public (such as the European systems). Volume Two: Tensions in Health Policy - Ethics, Interests, and the Public treats health and health care broadly, including considerations of questions about the meaning of assertions to a "right" to health, the role of prevention in individual and public health, and contentious health care questions such as those surrounding stem cell research and reproductive rights. Volume Three: Health Systems in Comparative Perspective includes articles that illustrate global differences in the politics and policy of health care. Volume Four: the Contemporary Politics of Health System Reform examines the politics of health reform, including articles that address reform proposals as the sources of political conflict they inevitably are.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tolleson-Rinehart, Sue

Peterson, Mark A

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Regierungspolitik Umwelt- und Gesundheitspolitik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Arbeit/Sozialpädagogik Soziale Dienste, Soziale Organisationen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

VOLUME 1: DEFINING HEALTH SYSTEMS - PATH DEPENDENCE AND POLICY EMERGENCE
Path dependence and system determinants
Ideology, Medical Technology, and Health Care Organization in Modern Nations - David Mechanic
Institutions, Veto Points, and Policy Results: A comparative analysis of health care - Ellen Immergut
The Historical Logic of National Health Insurance: Structure and sequence in the development of British, Canadian, and U.S. medical policy - Jacob Hacker
Nothing Succeeds Like the Right Kind of Failure: Postwar national health insurance in Canada and the United States - Antonia Maioni
Maternal Health Care Policy: Britain and the United States - Sue Tolleson-Rinehart
Tracing the evolution of health policy processes
Understanding Social Insurance: Fairness, affordability, and the 'modernization' of Social Security and Medicare - Theodore Marmor and Jerry Mashaw
The Political Economy of Medicare - Bruce Vladeck
A Political History of Medicare and Prescription Drug Coverage - Thomas Oliver, Philip Lee and Helene Lipton
The Lessons of Success: Revisiting the Medicare story - David Blumenthal and James Morone
Regulating health policy
Protection without Capture: Product approval by a politically responsive, learning regulator - Daniel Carpenter
State Legislative Staff Influence in Health Policy Making - Carol Weisert and William Weissert
Litigation and Public Health Policy Making: The case of tobacco control - Peter Jacobson and Kenneth Warner
Policy experimentation
States as Policy Laboratories: Emulating success in the Children's Health Insurance Program - Craig Volden
The Curious Conversion of Empire Blue Cross - James Robinson
VOLUME 2: TENSIONS IN HEALTH POLICY: ETHICS, INTERESTS, AND THE PUBLIC
Ethics, Justice, Governance, Rights, and Health Care
The Struggle for the Soul of Health Insurance - Deborah Stone
Enemies of the People: The moral dimension of public health - James Morone
Health as Citizenship Narrative - Candace Johnson
Civil Wars Kill and Maim People Long After the Shooting Stops - Hazem Adam Ghobarah, Paul Huth and Bruce Russett
AIDS and the American Health Polity: The history and prospects of a crisis of authority - Daniel Fox
Equity and Population Health: Toward a broader bioethics agenda - Norman Daniels
Health, Equity, and Reproductive Risks in the Workplace - Cynthia Daniels, Maureen Paul and Robert Rosofsky
Preserving Community in Health Care - Ezekiel Emanuel and Linda Emanuel
Public Opinion, Electoral Conflict, and the Representation of Interests
Political Preference Formation: Competition, deliberation, and the (ir)relevance of framing effects - Jamie Druckman
Does Policy Debate Reduce Information Effects in Public Opinion?: Analyzing the evolution of public opinion on health care - Ryan Claassen and Benjamin Highton
The Importance of Social and Political Context: The case of AIDS activism - M. Kent Jennings and Ellen Ann Andersen
"Culture of Life" Politics at the Bedside: The case of Terri Schiavo - George Annas
The Translation of Interests into Policy
Brokering Health Policy: Coalitions, Parties, and Interest Group Influence - Michael Heaney
Buying Expertise: Campaign contributions and attention to policy analysis in Congressional committees - Kevin Esterling
Reconsidering the Counter-Mobilization Hypothesis: Health policy lobbying in the American States - David Lowery, Virginia Gray, Jennifer Wolak, Erik Godwin and Whitt Kilburn
The Politics of Obesity: A current assessment and look ahead - Rogan Kersh
The Meaning and Measure of Policy Metaphors - Schlesinger Mark and Lau Richard
VOLUME 3: HEALTH SYSTEMS IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
Health policy, divergence, and convergence in systems
The Challenge of Comparative Health Policy for Political Science - David Falcone
Setting Health Pri

Über Autor(innen)

Tolleson-Rinehart, Sue
Sue Tolleson-Rinehart is the Assistant Chair for Faculty Development in the Department of Pediatrics in School of Medicine at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and also an adjunct member of the UNC Political Science department. A political scientist who built a national reputation in gender politics scholarship before adding health politics and policy to her teaching and research interests, she has authored, co-authored, or edited three books and numerous articles in gender politics, including publications on the politics and policy of women's health. She has been the co-Principal Investigator of the UNC Center for Education and Research on Therapeutics funded by the U.S. Agency for Health Care Policy Research, and the Principal Investigator of PEDS: Pediatric Education for Drug Safety, a grant awarded by the Attorneys General Prescriber and Consumer Education Program. She is a co-Principal Investigator on the American College of Rheumatology-sponsored Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis Guideline development project.

Peterson, Mark A
Mark A. Peterson is Professor of Political Science and Public Policy, and former Chair of the Department of Public Policy at the School of Public Affairs, University of California, Los Angeles. He is a Faculty Associate of the Center for Health Policy Research, Co-Director of the Policy Core for the Center for HIV Identification, Prevention, and Treatment Services, and on the faculty boards of the Center for American Politics and Public Policy, the Center for Policy Research on Aging, the Center for Society & Genetics, and the Institute for Social Science Research. From 1993 to 2002, he was the Editor of the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. His scholarship focuses on interactions among the Presidency, Congress, and interest groups, evaluating their implications for policy making, both within the general domain of domestic policy and with special attention to health care policy. In 2004, he was elected to membership in the National Academy of Social Insurance and is currently an elected member of the Council of the American Political Science Association.