Rethinking professional governance : international directions in healthcare / [electronic resource]
Kuhlmann, Ellen,editor.
Saks, Mike,editor.
This original and innovative book opens up new perspectives in health policy debate, examining the emerging international trends in the governance of health professions and the significance of national contexts for the changing health workforce. In bringing together research from a wide range of continental European countries as well as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, the contributors highlight different arenas of governance, as well as the various players involved in the policy process. They expand the public debate on professional governance - hitherto mainly limited to medical self-regulation - to encompass a broad span of health care providers, from nurses and midwives to alternative therapists and health support workers. The book provides new data and geopolitical perspectives in the debate over how to govern health care. It helps to better understand both the enabling conditions for, and the barriers to, making professionals more accountable to the interests of a changing public. This book will be a valuable resource for students at an undergraduate and postgraduate level, particularly for health programmes, sociology of professions and comparative health policy, but also for academics, researchers and managers working in health care.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
14: Professionals in transition:physicians' careers, migration and gender in LithuaniaConclusion: Health policy and workforce dynamics: the future; Index.
7: Interprofessional relationships: doctors and nurses in Slovenia8: Educating generalists: flexibility and identity in auxiliary nursing in Finland; 9: Culture matters: integration of folk medicine into healthcare in Russia; 10: Policy dynamics: marginal groups in the healthcare division of labour in the Uk; 11: Free riders in a fluid system: gender traps in agency nursing in Norway; 12: From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary; 13: Migration and occupational integration: foreign health professionals in Portugal.
Rethinking professional governance; Contents; Notes on contributors; Introduction: Changing patterns of health professional governance; 1: Protecting patients: international trends in medical governance; 2: Global markets and national pathways of medical re-regulation; 3: Governing beyond markets and managerialism: professions as mediators; 4: Trust relations and changing professional governance:theoretical challenges; 5: Professionalism meets entrepreneurialism and managerialism; 6: Collaborative care and professional boundaries: maternity care in Canada.
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This original and innovative book opens up new perspectives in health policy debate, examining the emerging international trends in the governance of health professions and the significance of national contexts for the changing health workforce. In bringing together research from a wide range of continental European countries as well as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, the contributors highlight different arenas of governance, as well as the various players involved in the policy process. They expand the public debate on professional governance - hitherto mainly limited to medical self-regulation - to encompass a broad span of health care providers, from nurses and midwives to alternative therapists and health support workers. The book provides new data and geopolitical perspectives in the debate over how to govern health care. It helps to better understand both the enabling conditions for, and the barriers to, making professionals more accountable to the interests of a changing public. This book will be a valuable resource for students at an undergraduate and postgraduate level, particularly for health programmes, sociology of professions and comparative health policy, but also for academics, researchers and managers working in health care.
Public health administration.
Medical policy.