Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care
This new collection explores recent patterns in health care regulation, financing, and delivery across countries. Wide-ranging essays cover both key countries (Canada, Germany, Holland, the United Kingdom and the United States) and key issues, including primary care,...WHO, Mental Health, Europe
Source: EC integrated project 028848-2 KNOWandPOL linkWhat is translation?
What is ‘translation’, and how might it help us think differently about knowledge transfer and exchange? The purpose of this article is to set out, for policy makers and practitioners, the theoretical and conceptual resources that translation holds and seems to represent.
The United Kingdom: health policy learning in the NHS
Source: Marmor, T R, Freeman, R and Okma, K (eds) Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care, New Haven: Yale UP link SaveSaveIntroduction
Source: Marmor, T R, Freeman, R and Okma, K (eds) Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care, New Haven: Yale UP link SaveSave SaveSaveComparing health systems
This chapter reviews the modes and functions of cross-national comparison in health services research and policy. Source: Mullner, R (ed) Encyclopaedia of Health Services Research, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage link SaveSavePharmaceutical politics in OECD countries
Source: Marmor, T R, Freeman, R and Okma, K (eds) Comparative Studies and the Politics of Modern Medical Care, New Haven: Yale UP link SaveSaveA National Health Service, by comparison
The National Health Service (NHS) has always been compared to other things, to other organizations and systems both at home and abroad. This paper explores those comparisons, beginning with the origins of national public health care in Lloyd George’s study of German social insurance, and ending with Gordon Brown’s claims for the NHS as ‘the best insurance policy in the world’.
Dawit Wondimagegn
is a psychiatrist working in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. He spent 3 months in Edinburgh at the end of 2008, as Visiting Research Fellow at the Centre of African Studies.Global health and the problem of governance
Source: Harvard Health Policy Review 9 (1) 26-34 link SaveSaveLearning by meeting
It has become something of a truism that organisational and political environments are internationalised, and that policy making is informed at least in part by increased understanding of what takes place in parallel domains and jurisdictions.
Comparative perspectives and policy learning
Source: Morone, J A, Litman, T J and Robins, L S (eds) Health Politics and Policy, London: Cengage Delmar Learning link SaveSaveWestern Europe, health systems of
Source: Heggenhougen, K and Quah, S (eds) International Encyclopaedia of Public Health, vol 6 San Diego: Academic Press/Elsevie linkMental health policy making in Ethiopia
Source: The Scottish Government email linkAndrew McFadyen
is a journalist and former Head of Communications for the Scottish Labour Party. His doctoral thesis assessed Donald Dewar’s role in Scottish devolution.Organizing mental health in Scotland
This paper reports the first phase of a research project on mental health policy in Scotland that investigates the way knowledge is mobilised in the policy process.