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Social Policy and Health Care
By Kevin Gormley
204 pages
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- Churchill Livingstone
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- Edinburgh
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- 1999
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Synopsis
Social policy is now part of all nursing courses at pre-registration level. It is also an important topic in many post-registration courses for nurses and other health care professionals. All health care professionals are also now expected to play a more active role in policy development and implementation. This text will be unique among books currently on offer in that it willprovide an outline of the main structures, issues and developments in social policy, relating to the healthcare field. In ...
Social policy is now part of all nursing courses at pre-registration level. It is also an important topic in many post-registration courses for nurses and other health care professionals. All health care professionals are also now expected to play a more active role in policy development and implementation. This text will be unique among books currently on offer in that it willprovide an outline of the main structures, issues and developments in social policy, relating to the healthcare field. In addition, it contextualises practice by means of examples and case studies from a range of client groups.
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Table of contents
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- Social Policy and Health Care *
- Social Policy and Health Care *
- Contents *
- Contributors *
- Preface *
- Part 1 - Introduction 1
- 1 - Contextual Issues *
- 2 - The Development of Health and Social Care Services 13
- 3 - The Nhs and the Welfare State 29
- 4 - The Process of Policy Implementation 43
- 5 - Social Issues and Health 51
- 6 - Gender Issues 69
- Part 2 - Focal Issues *
- 7 - Reorganised Health Care 85
- 8 - The Mixed Economy of Health Care 97
- 9 - Disability 111
- Social Policy and Health Care *
- Social Policy and Health Care *
- Contents *
- Contributors *
- Preface *
- Part 1 - Introduction 1
- 1 - Contextual Issues *
- 2 - The Development of Health and Social Care Services 13
- 3 - The Nhs and the Welfare State 29
- 4 - The Process of Policy Implementation 43
- 5 - Social Issues and Health 51
- 6 - Gender Issues 69
- Part 2 - Focal Issues *
- 7 - Reorganised Health Care 85
- 8 - The Mixed Economy of Health Care 97
- 9 - Disability 111
- 10 - Learning Disabilities and Mental Health 125
- 11 - Children 143
- Part 3 - Wider Issues *
- 12 - International Health Care Provision 157
- 13 - Future Trends 175
- Index *