Constructive Conversations About Health

Fülszöveg

Current health policy is required to respond to a constantly changing social
and political environment characterised, particularly in Europe, by ageing
populations, increased migration, and growing inequalities in health and
services. With health systems under increasing strain there is a sense that we
need to seek new means of determining health policy.
Much political debate focuses on managerial issues such as the levels of
health funding and the setting and missing of targets. Meanwhile our moral
imperatives, our values and principles, go relatively unexamined. What are
these values? Can we agree their validity and salience? How do we manage
the paradox of competing goods? Can we find new ways of talking about, and
resolving, our conflicting values and competing priorities in order to create
sound, appropriate, and just health policies for the 21st Century?
Written by leading health policy makers and academics from many countries,
Constructive Conversations about... Tovább

Fülszöveg

Current health policy is required to respond to a constantly changing social
and political environment characterised, particularly in Europe, by ageing
populations, increased migration, and growing inequalities in health and
services. With health systems under increasing strain there is a sense that we
need to seek new means of determining health policy.
Much political debate focuses on managerial issues such as the levels of
health funding and the setting and missing of targets. Meanwhile our moral
imperatives, our values and principles, go relatively unexamined. What are
these values? Can we agree their validity and salience? How do we manage
the paradox of competing goods? Can we find new ways of talking about, and
resolving, our conflicting values and competing priorities in order to create
sound, appropriate, and just health policies for the 21st Century?
Written by leading health policy makers and academics from many countries,
Constructive Conversations about Health examines in depth the underlying
values and principles of health policy, and posits a more enlightened public
and political discourse.
The book wilhbe invaluable for those involved in health policy making and
governance, politicians, healthcare managers, researchers, ethicists, health
and social affai>s media, health rights and patient participation groups.
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