Overview
- Comprehensively revised new edition of this marketleading text providing a broadranging introduction to health policy and health care in Britain.
Updated to cover Major and Blair governments with much extra material throughout and completely new chapter on the user's perspective
First chapters introduce theories of health and medicine and set the British experience of health and illness in comparative and historical context: this is not covered by competing texts
Large amount of uptodate information presented in a concise, wellordered and readable form with extensive use of diagrams, illustrations and exhibits
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About this book
This updated version of a popular text covers all major aspects of contemporary health care in Britain. It provides a concise guide to recent trends in health and health services, identifies the main problems and challenges facing the health care system today, and analyses the responses of policy-makers. Lively, readable and illustrated throughout with appropriate tables, figures, and exhibits, the book provides both an informative account for the introductory student and a thoughtful commentary for those more familiar with the health care system.
About the author
ROB BAGGOTT is Reader in Public Policy at De Montfort University, Leicester.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Health and Health Care in Britain
Authors: Rob Baggott
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-14492-1
Publisher: Red Globe Press London
eBook Packages: Palgrave Political & Intern. Studies Collection, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Rob Baggott 1998
Edition Number: 2
Number of Pages: XIV, 370
Additional Information: Previously published under the imprint Palgrave
Topics: Public Health