This important new textbook provides comparative and critical analysis of healthcare policy from high income states in Europe to low-income countries in the Global South.
It integrates conceptual themes drawn from the fields of sociology, policy analysis, and political science to offer a unique combination of theory, historical background, and wider social commentary. The book is divided into three sections:
- Section one establishes the conceptual basis for the analysis of the health policy-making process, including implementation.
- Section two provides an introduction to the key elements of conducting a comparative health system-s analysis, including chapters that provide examples of performance analysis in both high and low-income countries.
- Section Three examines key challenges now facing health policy makers that include long-term social care provision, widening the scope of public health to address social inequalities in health outcome, the integr
