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OverviewUsing an approach that combines transnational and comparative social policy analysis with international relations, this book assesses various global social policy actors and compares their ideas and prescriptions about national health care systems. It highlights the importance of considering health policies across multiple scales. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Alexandra KaaschPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: 1st ed. 2015 Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 21.60cm Weight: 3.403kg ISBN: 9781137308887ISBN 10: 1137308885 Pages: 172 Publication Date: 10 August 2015 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of Contents1. Global Social Policy Actors and Health Care Systems Ideas 2. UN Organisations: Health for All and All for Health Care Systems? 3. The OECD and the WTO: Outside the UN but Increasingly Important? 4. The New Centres of Power? G8, G20 and the BRICS and Health Care Systems 5. The Global Fund to Fight Aids, Tuberculosis and Malaria: A Hybrid Organisation as the Best Health Care Systems Actor? 6. Non-Governmental Organisations and Health Care System Ideas 7. The Polish Health Care System Under Global Scrutiny 8. Conclusions: Multiple Actors, Uncertain Ideas, Nested DiscoursesReviewsAuthor InformationAlexandra Kaasch is Junior Professor in Transnational Social Policy at Bielefeld University, Germany. She has previously published Transformations in Global and Regional Social Policies (edited with Paul Stubbs, Palgrave Macmillan 2014) and The Welfare State as a Crisis Manager (with Peter Starke and Franca van Hooren, Palgrave Macmillan 2013). She is editor of the Global Social Policy Digest. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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