Starting with more general issues of healthcare policy and governance in a global perspective and using the lens of national case studies of healthcare reform, this handbook addresses key themes in the debates over changing healthcare policy.

Table of Contents

• List of Tables and Figures
• List of Boxes
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction
• 1 Healthcare Policy and Governance in International Perspective - Ellen Kuhlmann, Robert H. Blank, Ivy Lynn Bourgeault, and Claus Wendt
• Part I Healthcare Policy and Global Governance
• 2 Healthcare Policy and Innovation - Richard B. Saltman
• 3 Global Healthcare Policy and the Austerity Agenda - Arne Ruckert, Ronald Labonté, and Rylan H. Parker
• 4 Healthcare Policy and Finance - Claus Wendt
• 5 Primary Healthcare as a Global Healthcare Concept - Robin Gauld
• 6 Maternity Care as a Global Health Policy Issue - Cecilia Benoit, Eugene Declercq, Susan F. Murray, Jane Sandall, Edwin van Teijlingen, and Sirpa Wrede
• 7 Typologies of Healthcare Systems and Policies - Viola Burau, Robert H. Blank, and Emmanuele Pavolini
• 8 Comparison of Healthcare Systems Performance - Irene Papanicolas and Jonathan Cylus
• Part II Health Policy Reform: Global Trends, Local Road Maps
• 9 Health Policy Reform in China - Vivian Lin and Hongwen Zhao
• 10 Health Policy in India: Some Critical Concerns - Gita Sen and Aditi Iyer
• 11 Health Policy Reform in Low-Income and Lower Middle-Income Countries in Southeast Asia - Göran Tomson and Olivia Biermann
• 12 Health Policy Reform in Sub-Saharan Africa - Alex E. Asakitikpi
• 13 Health Policy Reform in South America - Ligia Giovanella and Mariana Faria
• 14 Health Policy Reform in North America - Antonia Maioni and Theodore R. Marmor
• 15 Health Policy Reform in the Countries of the Former Soviet Union - Bernd Rechel
• 16 Health Policy in the European Union - Scott L. Greer and Margitta Mätzke
• Part III Health Human Resources Policy and Workforce Governance
• 17 Bringing the Health Workforce Challenge to the Policy Agenda - Gilles Dussault
• 18 Health Human Resources Policy in Europe - Ellen Kuhlmann, Peter P. Groenewegen, Ronald Batenburg, and Christa Larsen
• 19 Deploying and Managing Health Human Resources - Ivy Lynn Bourgeault and Katelyn Merritt
• 20 Clinical Management and Professionalism - Ian Kirkpatrick, Kathy Hartley, Ellen Kuhlmann, and Gianluca Veronesi
• 21 Health Worker Migration in Context - James Buchan
• Part IV Concepts of Health Policy and Governance
• 22 Mixed Governance and Healthcare Finance in East Asian Healthcare Systems - Robert H. Blank and Shou-Hsia Cheng
• 23 Public-Private Partnerships in Healthcare - A. Venkat Raman and James Warner Björkman
• 24 Financial Incentives and the Governance of Performance - Ruth McDonald
• 25 Decentralization and Health System Governance - Scott L. Greer and Elize Massard da Fonseca
• 26 Leadership and Innovation in Healthcare Governance - Jean-Louis Denis and Nicolette van Gestel
• Part V Areas of Health Policy and Governance
• 27 Governing Public Hospitals - Antonio Durán and Richard B. Saltman
• 28 Long-Term Care Policies - Emmanuele Pavolini and Hildegard Theobald
• 29 Mental Health Policy and Governance - Joan Busfield
• 30 Health Policy and Complementary and Alternative Medicine - Mike Saks
• 31 Governing Regenerative Medicine - Andrew Webster and Alex Faulkner
• 32 E-Health Policy and Benchmarking in the European Union - Wendy L. Currie and Jonathan J. M. Seddon
• Part VI Healthcare Policy and the Equality Gap
• 33 Equity in Health Reform - Marc J. Roberts
• 34 Citizenship and Healthcare Policy - Sigrun Olafsdottir and Elyas Bakhtiari
• 35 Gender and Healthcare Policy - Ellen Kuhlmann and Ellen Annandale
• 36 Addressing Violence against Women in Health Policies - Avni Amin, Eszter Kismödi, and Claudia García-Moreno
• 37 Ethnic Minority Groups in Healthcare Governance - Hurriyet Babacan and Narayan Gopalkrishnan
• 38 European Policies on Healthcare for Undocumented Migrants - Ewout van Ginneken and Bradford H. Gray
• 39 Ethics of Healthcare Policy and the Concept of Solidarity - Barbara Prainsack and Alena Buyx