1st Edition

Health Policy Critical and Comparative Perspectives

By Iain Crinson Copyright 2025
210 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

210 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

This important new textbook provides comparative and critical analysis of health care policy from high-income countries in Europe to low-income developing countries in the Global South. It integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology, policy analysis, and political science to offer a unique combination of theory, historical background, and wider social commentary. The... Read more

0.General Introduction.  Section One.Conceptualising and Contextualising Health Policy. 1.Globalisation and the Changing Role of the State.  2.The Process of Public Policy-Making.  3.The Governance of Health Care Systems.  4 .Financing and Funding of Health Care Systems.  Section Two.Conceiving & Comparing Health Care Systems.  5.Comparing Health Systems Outcomes.  6.Ghana and Kenya: A Comparative Analysis of Health Systems in Low Income Developing Countries.  7.Germany and the U.K: A Comparative Analysis of Health Systems in High Income Countries.  Section Three.Future Challenges for Health Policy and Health Systems.  8.The Challenge of Integrating Health and Long-Term Care Provision.  9.The Challenge of Widening the Scope of Public Health Policy.  10.The Challenge of Constructing a Pharmaceutical Policy.  11.Conclusion: Brief Reflections on the Study of Health Policy. 

Biography

Iain Crinson has been teaching, researching, and publishing in the field of the sociology of health and health policy for over three decades. For much of this time, he has been based at St Georges, University of London.