Shaping health policy [electronic resource] : Case study methods and analysis
Exworthy, Mark,1966-
Peckham, Stephen.
Powell, Martin A.,1961-
Bristol : Policy,
2012.
This collection examines the role that case-studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by leading health policy researchers in sociology, social policy, management and organisation studies. The collection explores and promotes the case-study as an under-used method and thereby encourages a more reflective approach to policy learning by practitioners and academics. The book will appeal to u
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""Shaping health policy""; ""Contents""; ""List of figures and tables""; ""Contributors""; ""Abbreviations""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""1. Case studies in health policy: an introduction""; ""Case studies: a case of what?""; ""Health policy: a â€?chameleon conceptâ€?""; ""The scope and rationale of this book""; ""References""; ""2. Case studies of the health policy process: a methodological introduction""; ""Introduction""; ""The interdisciplinary origins of the case study""; ""American policy analysis and the Chicago School approach to case study research""
""The intrinsic case study and the professional health bureaucracy""""The â€?scientificâ€? spectre of numbers: the case study and its methodological detractors""; ""The methodological makeover of the case study in political and health policy research""; ""The UK health policy case study, and methodological pluralism""; ""Conclusion: the extended case study and methodological pluralism""; ""References""; ""Part Two: Creation, consolidation and disillusion (1948â€?1980s)""; ""References""; ""3. NHS birthing pains""; ""Introduction""; ""Review of studies""; ""Sources""; ""Significance""
""Explanation""""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""4. Hospital policy in England and Wales: of what is the 1962 Hospital Plan a case?""; ""Introduction""; ""â€?A durable asset politicallyâ€?: rationality and planning, or an exercise in spin?""; ""â€?Ruthlessly breaking with habit and traditionâ€?: modernisation and modernity""; ""The Plan and â€?state failureâ€?""; ""Concluding comments""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""References""; ""5. The case study as history: â€?Ideology, class and the National Health Serviceâ€? by Rudolf Klein""; ""Introduction""; ""Background to the case study""
""â€?Ideology, class and the National Health Serviceâ€?""""Analysing the case""; ""â€?Ideology, class and the National Health Serviceâ€? in retrospect""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""; ""6. Hospitals in trouble""; ""Introduction""; ""Description of the case study""; ""Methods and analysis""; ""The contemporary relevance of the case study""; ""Summary""; ""References""; ""7. Normal accidents: learning how to learn about safety""; ""Introduction""; ""Normal accidents""; ""Learning from Normal accidents""; ""Concluding comments""; ""Key points""; ""Further reading""; ""References""
""8. Repressed interests: explaining why patients and the public have little influence on healthcare policy: Alfordâ€?s concepts of dominant, challenging and repressed interests""""Alfordâ€?s thesis""; ""Contemporary relevance""; ""Some methodological lessons for health policy analysis""; ""References""; ""Part Three: â€?Safe in our handsâ€?: conflicts and challenges (1980s and 1990s)""; ""References""; ""9. The 1983 Griffiths Inquiry""; ""Introduction""; ""Antecedents of the Griffiths Inquiry""; ""The Griffiths Inquiry""
""Immediate reaction to â€?the Griffiths prescriptionâ€? and its implementation""
This collection examines the role that case-studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by leading health policy researchers in sociology, social policy, management and organisation studies. The collection explores and promotes the case-study as an under-used method and thereby encourages a more reflective approach to policy learning by practitioners and academics. The book will appeal to u
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Medical policy.
Health Care Quality, Access, and Evaluation
Health Planning
Biomedical Research
Public Policy
Patient Care Management
Social Control Policies
Health Care
Research
Health Services Administration
Health Care Economics and Organizations
Social Control, Formal
Science
Policy
Natural Science Disciplines
Social Sciences
Sociology
Health Policy
Delivery of Health Care
Health Services Research