International Association of Health Policy

This book offers a unique multi-disciplinary perspective on tackling health inequalities in a rich country, examining the New Labour policy agenda for tackling health inequalities and its inherent challenges.

This analysis of the political and social forces that shape the well-being and quality of life of populations in developed capitalist countries is written by scholars based in several different countries. The book shows how the varying political traditions in the developed world—social democratic, Christian democratic, conservative, and liberal traditions—have affected populations’ health and quality of life in the western democracies.

Since US President Reagan and UK Prime Minister Thatcher, a major ideology (under the name of economic science) has been expanded worldwide that claims that the best policies to stimulate human development are those that reduce the role of the state in economic and social lives:privatizing public services and public enterprises, deregulating the mobility of capital and labor, eliminating protectionism and reducing public social protection.

The field of social inequalities in health continues its vigorous growth in the early years of the 21st century. This volume following in the footsteps of Vicente Navarro's edited collection of The Political Economy of Social Inequalities, is a compilation of recent contributions to the area of social epidemiology, health disparities, health economics and health services research.

Health Policy Reform: Driving the wrong way? - A critical guide to the global 'health reform' industry
author: John Lister
Published July 5 2005
ISBN 1 904750 45 1 £25pb
“This is an excellent book for students and policy makers and provides a useful overview of health care restructuring across the world. I recommend it.”
Allyson Pollock, Chair of Health Policy & Health Services Research, UCL

The political economy of healthcare: A clinical perspective
by Dr. Julian Tudor Hart

This new book, just published by Policy Press is written by our friend, longstanding leader of our strugles for another possible world, active member of IHAP Julian Tudor Hart.

Julian Tudor Hart

A New Kind of Doctor, The General Practitioner's part in the Helath of the Community

London Merlin Press, 1988
ISBN: 0 85036 299 7

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Hans-Ulrich Deppe

Zur sozialen Anatomie des Gesundheitssystems, Neoliberalismus und Gesundheitspolitik in Deutschland

Verlag fuer Akademische Schriften, Frankfurt a.M./ Germany 2000.

Dorte Effersoe Gannik & Laila Launso, editors

Disease, Knowledge, and Society

Smafundslitteratur , 2001

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