Medical doctors in health reforms : a comparative study of England and Canada / Jean-Louis Denis, Sabrina Germain, Catherine Régis and Gianluca Veronesi.
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.
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Policy Press,
2022.
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Table of 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.