Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy: Final Report

Towards a New Perspective on Health Policy delves into the concept of health, the nature of policy development, the organization of health services, and the challenges posed by inequalities in health status. It offers new perspectives on the complex issues surrounding the health field. This document will help policy advisors in all sectors to situate today's seemingly intractable problems in their complex historical, socio-political, and scientific context, and to begin to resolve them. 2001.

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Beyond Restructuring

What lies ahead once health reforms have been implemented?

Will the reforms have healed the divisions and resolved the problems in health care?

Beyond Restructuring is a distillation of ideas and themes from a King's Fund International Seminar which addresses the question of 'life beyond reform'. It guides the reader through the debate in a variety of accessible ways. The book includes many of the papers from the participant countries and summarizes the discussion, sub-themes and conclusions that emerged from them.

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Keepers: Workers in Total Institutions

Keepers presents twelve monologues culled from over 60 interviews with workers in prisons, long-stay hospitals, and other total institutions. Through the stories of these modern "dungeons", the book explores questions about autonomy, freedom, love and individuality. It also sheds light on the relationship between a closed environment and those individuals who serve in it or suffer from it. Keepers is both a tale of the modern inferno as told by its keepers, as well as an examination of the nature and limitations of certain aspects of human relationships.