|
Health and Exclusion: Policy and Practice in Health Provision
|
| List Price: | £29.99 |
| Price: | £28.49 & eligible for FREE Super Saver Delivery on orders over £5. Details |
Availability: Usually dispatched within 24 hours
Dispatched from and sold by Amazon.co.uk
Product Description
Health and Exclusion is a pioneering examination of those policies and practices of exclusion currently experienced by health 'customers' in the UK.
Product Details
- Amazon Sales Rank: #2074063 in Books
- Published on: 1999-05-27
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Binding: Paperback
- 224 pages
Editorial Reviews
From the Back Cover
While practices and policies of exclusion have always characterised health care systems and the professional groups who work with them, recent changes to the NHS, as well as wider, more global structural changes, have increased the focus on exclusion as a key theme in both health care and health work. Health and Exclusion addresses exclusion from a number of informing perspectives in terms of health care policy and practice.
In addition to documenting examples of exclusion in the health services, the book discusses the impact of poverty on the health of low-income households with children; the contribution of health promotion strategies to maintaining exclusion and marginalisation; exclusion in maternity care; and the social exclusion of those with mental health problems and the role of doctors and nurses in this process. Other themes covered include resistance to exclusion through strategies of empowerment, and the challenges to professional autonomy and power mounted by `managerialism.
Health and Exclusion challenges New Labour's 'third way' and emphasises the wider framework for understanding exclusion in a health care context. It is essential reading for health professionals and students of social policy and sociology.
About the Author
David Banks, University of Teeside; Clare Blackburn, University of Warwick; Professor John Clarke, The Open University; Sue Davies, University of Sheffield; Nicholas Fox, University of Sheffield, Northern General Hospital; Mavis Kirkham, University of Sheffield; Brian Loader, University of Teeside; Peter Morrall, University of Leeds, Leeds General Infirmary; Michael Purdy, University of Sheffield; Alan Walker, University of Sheffield.
