Health Policy, Power and Politics : Sociological Insights.

Intro -- Health Policy, Power and Politics -- HalfTitle Page -- Serious Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- An Introduction -- Chapter 1: Continuity or Change? Organisational Developments in the National Health Service -- Recent Reforms: The Case of the 2012 Health and Social Care Act -- The Interplay of Powerful Interest Groups Shaping Organisational Developments -- The Performance of the NHS: A Comparative Analysis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2: Medical Professionalism and its Reconfiguration -- Sociological Narratives of Medical Professionalism -- Government Policy and the English NHS -- Managerialism and the Medical Profession -- Changing Approaches to Medical Governance -- A Trustworthy Medical Profession? -- Trust and Failing Medical Governance: The Case of the Indian Health System -- Conclusion -- Chapter 3: A Responsive Health Service? Patient Choice, Public Involvement and Co-Production -- The Socio-Political Context -- Recent Government Policy -- An Increasing Policy Focus on Choice for Patients -- Assessing the Impact of Policy -- The Changing Nature of the Doctor-Patient Relationship -- Patient Perspectives and the Lived Experience of Disability and Chronic Illness -- Social Inequalities in the Experience of Healthcare: The Case of Older People -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Rationing, Regulating and Big Pharma -- Rationing and Priority Setting: A Conceptual Clarification -- Policy Analysis: A Shift Away from Implicit Towards Explicit Rationing in the NHS? -- A Case Study of Explicit Rationing: The Emergence of NICE -- Characterising the Decision-Making Process and Rationing -- Explicit Versus Implicit Rationing: Strengths and Weaknesses -- Policy Making in the NHS and the Influence of Big Pharma -- Medicines Regulation: International Comparisons -- Conclusion.

Chapter 5: Mental Health Policy and an Epidemic of Misery -- The Changing Shape of Mental Health Policy -- Trust, Risk and Mental Health Policy -- Medicalisation and Psychiatric Treatments Policy -- Mental Health Users: A Social Characterisation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 6: Framing Health Policy in the Media -- The Concept of the Mass Media -- The Role of the Mass Media and its Influence -- The Media and the Changing Shape of Health Policy Making -- Bias and the Media -- Newsworthiness -- Celebrity Culture and the Media -- Media and Health: Case Studies -- Vaccination and the Media -- Mental Health and the Media -- Food Scandals and the Media -- The Ebola Outbreak: A Moral Panic? -- The Position and Role of the Social Media -- Conclusion -- Chapter 7: The Widening in Social Inequalities in Health but the Narrowing of Policy -- The Nature and Extent of Social Inequalities in Health in England -- Explanations for Social Inequalities in Health -- Characterising Policy -- Lifestyle Behaviours as a Social and Moral Problem -- The Interplay of Powerful Interest Groups in Public Health Policies -- Conclusion -- Chapter 8: Environment, Place and Health Policy -- Public Health Successes Through Environmental Policy -- Pollution, Depletion and Sustainability -- Air Pollution: The New Tobacco? -- Depletion -- Sustainability -- The Working Environment, Disease and Well-being -- Social Inequalities and the Environment: The Importance of Place -- Conclusion -- A Conclusion -- References -- Index.

In the context of substantial changes in health service policy and public health policy in England and Wales over the last two decades, Health Policy, Power and Politics fills an important gap by providing an up-to-date and accessible account and sociological analysis of recent trends in health policies.

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