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1 online resource |
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Sociology of health professions |
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Sociology of health professions.
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| Contents |
Front Cover -- Half Title -- Series page -- Medical Coctors in Health Reforms: A Comparative Study of England -- Copyright information -- Table of contents -- List of abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Editors' overview -- Introduction: Medical doctors and healthcare reforms -- Setting the scene: reforms in contemporary healthcare systems -- The players: agency in healthcare reforms -- The medical profession as an agent of reform -- Governments or states as agents of reform -- Policy instruments and the agency of governments in healthcare reforms |
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Distal and proximal context variables -- Agency in healthcare reforms -- 1 Theoretical framework -- Agency in context: legal and political dimensions -- Law as a context for the expression of agency in healthcare reforms -- Politics as an enabling and constraining context for healthcare reforms -- Context and reforms -- Sociological and organisational perspectives on the role of medical doctors in healthcare reforms -- Status and roles of professions -- The essentialist or taxonomic approach to the study of professions |
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The profession as an achievement: a processual approach to the study of professions -- Institutional context and the agentic capacities of professionals -- Processes of change and accommodation within professions and organisational fields -- Organisations, professions and reforms -- Theoretical model for comparative study of the role of medical doctors in healthcare reforms -- Notes -- 2 Research methodology: tracking the role of medical doctors in healthcare reforms -- Selection of the case studies in England and Canada -- Data sources -- Data analysis |
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Methodological reasoning and analytical logics -- 3 The role of medical doctors in healthcare reforms in two Canadian provinces -- Part 1: Québec case narrative -- The 'prehistory': healthcare prior to the creation of Medicare, 1940-71 -- Getting organised: pillars of the Québec Medicare structure -- The implementation game, 1971-80 -- Strain and conflict, 1980-90 -- Tensions and flirtations in medical policy, 1990-2000 -- Collaboration and confrontation, 2000-13 -- Doctors in the driver's seat, 2014-18 -- Part 2: Québec case analysis |
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The 'prehistory': healthcare prior to the creation of Medicare, 1940-71 -- The influence of context: drivers and shapers of medical politics -- Strategies used by the protagonists to deal with the evolving context -- Implications for medical politics and healthcare reforms -- The implementation game, 1971-80 -- The influence of context: drivers and shapers of medical politics -- Strategies used by the protagonists to accommodate and deal with the evolving context -- Implications for medical politics and healthcare reforms -- Strain and conflict: learning to dance in step, 1980-90 |
| Summary |
Health and legal experts from England and Canada consider the influence of medical doctors on reforms in this comparative study. With reflections on participation since the inception of publicly-funded healthcare systems, they show how the status of doctors affects change |
| Notes |
The influence of context: drivers and shapers of medical politics |
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Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 24, 2022) |
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Health care reform -- England
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Health care reform -- Canada
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Medical policy -- England -- Citizen participation
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Medical policy -- Canada -- Citizen participation
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Physicians -- Political activity -- England
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Physicians -- Political activity -- Canada
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Health care reform.
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Medical policy.
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Health Care Reform
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Health Policy
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Physicians
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physicians.
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MEDICAL / Health Care Delivery.
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Health care reform
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Medical policy -- Citizen participation
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Physicians -- Political activity
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| SUBJECT |
England https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D004739 |
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Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170 |
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Canada
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England
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Germain, Sabrina, author.
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Régis, Catherine, 1976- author.
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Veronesi, Gianluca, author
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| ISBN |
9781447352167 |
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1447352165 |
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9781447352174 |
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1447352173 |
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