CONSTRUCTIVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT HEALTH
policy and values
2006248 pages Paperback
ISBN-10 1 84619 033 9
ISBN-13 9781846190339
Edited by Marshall Marinker, Visiting Professor of General Practice, GKT, King’s College, London
Description
Current health policy is required to respond to a constantly changing social and political environment characterised, particularly in Europe, by ageing populations, increased migration, and growing inequalities in health and services. With health systems under increasing strain there is a sense that we need to seek new means of determining health policy.
Much political debate focuses on managerial issues such as the levels of health funding and the setting and missing of targets. Meanwhile our moral imperatives, our values and principles, go relatively unexamined. What are these values? Can we agree their validity and salience? How do we manage the paradox of competing goods? Can we find new ways of talking about, and resolving, our conflicting values and competing priorities in order to create sound, appropriate, and just health policies for the 21st Century?
Written by leading health policy makers and academics from many countries, Constructive Conversations about Health examines in depth the underlying values and principles of health policy, and posits a more enlightened public and political discourse.
The book will be invaluable for those involved in health policy making and governance, politicians, healthcare managers, researchers, ethicists, health and social affairs media, health rights and patient participation groups.
‘The literature on health policy is vast. On offer are models of health services, economic theory, management theory, disquisitions on ethical principles, social analyses, literally thousands of publications. In a globalised and electronically networked world, this literature has already generated its own particular language, a policy jargon replete with terms that look deceptively familiar, terms that will be much in evidence in what now follows, terms whose meanings require our closest attention.’
Marshall Marinker
Review Quotes 'Explores the moral imperatives and underlying values and principles that contribute to the development of appropriate and just health policies. It succeeds admirably. I learned much from the perceptive and refreshingly candid insights.' THE LANCET
'Challenging, deeply thought-provoking and evocative. An inspiring read. Altogether, the book is a unique contribution to our understanding.' HEALTHMATTERS
 Health policy and the constructive conversationalist The value of values Health and wellbeing Equity and justice Choice Democracy Stewardship Evidence Efficiency Synergy Sustainability Interdependence Creativity Ethical considerations in health systems Justice and the allocation of health care Health values and the politician The future
Marc Danzon Ilona Kickbusch Jennifer Prah Ruger Giovanni Moro Per Carlsson Peter Garpendy Constantino Sakellarides Derek Yach David Hunter Morton Warner Mihaly Kokeny Graham Lister Miquel Porta Julio Frenk Suzanne Rameix Isabelle Durand-Zaleski Hans Stein Josep Figueras Martin McKee
Contact Information
To send your comments about this book to Radcliffe Publishing, click here.
See other books in these categories Policy
Management in Primary Care
Research
Management in Secondary Care
|