Theatre in Health and Care examines theatre practice that takes place within a range of health and care settings, from medical training to advocacy projects for service users. Drawing on a range of case studies, the book provides insights into working practices as well as posing…
Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. This book analyses how the health care works, and how it came into being. Taking a comparative perspective, the authors describe the politics of health care, the variet…
"Japan has a healthy population compared with the rest of the world, yet the Japanese pay relatively little for medical care. This book analyzes how Japan's health-care system works and how it came into being. Although the authors discuss the drawbacks to Japan's stringent cost-…
What is the relevance of the concept of risk to social policy? Has risk replaced need as the key organizing principle of welfare provision? Do current trends support the contention that policy development is risk-based? Traditionally, need has been the major mechanism for alloca…
"Traditionally, need has been the major mechanism for allocating resources in public services, and social policy texts have addressed various state responses to social problems and the alleviation of need. However, in a period of state retrenchment and welfare restriction, ratio…
This volume considers human error as a phenomenon to be understood so it can be effectively addressed, thus enhancing safety. This involves challenging the presumption that to err is human and supplanting it with a synthesis of insights conveyed by stories from the rarely consid…
by Mays, Nicholas, Walt, Gill, Buse, Kent,, political economist
fromUnderstanding public health
