The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance.

Cover -- Half-Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Boxes -- Notes on Contributors -- Introduction -- 1 Healthcare Policy and Governance in International Perspective -- Part I: Healthcare Policy and Global Governance -- 2 Healthcare Policy and Innovation -- 3 Global Healthcare Policy and the Austerity Agenda -- 4 Healthcare Policy and Finance -- 5 Primary Healthcare as a Global Healthcare Concept -- 6 Maternity Care as a Global Health Policy Issue -- 7 Typologies of Healthcare Systems and Policies -- 8 Comparison of Healthcare Systems Performance -- Part II: Health Policy Reform: Global Trends, Local Road Maps -- 9 Health Policy Reform in China -- 10 Health Policy in India: Some Critical Concerns -- 11 Health Policy Reform in Low-Income and Lower Middle-Income Countries in Southeast Asia -- 12 Health Policy Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa -- 13 Health Policy Reform in South America -- 14 Health Policy Reform in North America -- 15 Health Policy Reform in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union -- 16 Health Policy in the European Union -- Part III: Health Human Resources Policy and Workforce Governance -- 17 Bringing the Health Workforce Challenge to the Policy Agenda -- 18 Health Human Resources Policy in Europe -- 19 Deploying and Managing Health Human Resources -- 20 Clinical Management and Professionalism -- 21 Health Worker Migration in Context -- Part IV: Concepts of Health Policy and Governance -- 22 Mixed Governance and Healthcare Finance in East Asian Healthcare Systems -- 23 Public-Private Partnerships in Healthcare -- 24 Financial Incentives and the Governance of Performance -- 25 Decentralization and Health System Governance -- 26 Leadership and Innovation in Healthcare Governance -- Part V: Areas of Health Policy and Governance -- 27 Governing Public Hospitals.

28 Long-Term Care Policies -- 29 Mental Health Policy and Governance -- 30 Health Policy and Complementary and Alternative Medicine -- 31 Governing Regenerative Medicine -- 32 E-Health Policy and Benchmarking in the European Union -- Part VI: Healthcare Policy and the Equality Gap -- 33 Equity in Health Reform -- 34 Citizenship and Healthcare Policy -- 35 Gender and Healthcare Policy -- 36 Addressing Violence against Women in Health Policies -- 37 Ethnic Minority Groups in Healthcare Governance -- 38 European Policies on Healthcare for Undocumented Migrants -- 39 Ethics of Healthcare Policy and the Concept of Solidarity -- Index.

Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcare reform, this handbook addresses key themes in the debates over changing healthcare policy.

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