{"product_id":"modernising-health-care-9781861348586","title":"Modernising health care","description":"\u003cp\u003eModernising health care: Reinventing professions, the state and the public is a crucial contribution to debates about the rapid modernisation of health care systems and the dynamics of changing modes of governance and citizenship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nStructured around the role of the professions as mediators between state and citizens, and set against a background of tighter resources and growing demands for citizenship rights, Ellen Kuhlmann's book offers a much-needed comparative analysis, using the German health care system as a case study. The German system, with its strongly self-regulatory medical profession, exemplifies both the capacity of professionalism to re-make itself, and the role of the state in response, highlighting the benefits and dangers of medical self-regulation, while demonstrating the potential for change beyond marketisation and managerialism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nKuhlmann critically reviews dominant models of provider control and user participation, and empirically investigates different sets of dynamics in health care, including tensions between global reform models and nation-specific conditions; interprofessional dynamics and changing gender arrangements; the role of the service-user as a new stakeholder in health care; and the rise of a new professionalism shaped by social inclusion.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\nModernising health care provides new approaches and a wealth of new empirical data for academics and students of health policy, medical sociology and sociology of professions, and for health policy makers and managers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ellen Kuhlmann","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48280920555771,"sku":"9781861348586","price":127.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0779\/3917\/9771\/files\/9781861348586_3b07dfb2-c5ac-4d3a-b4bf-5bb7fb208aef.jpg?v=1772487848","url":"https:\/\/indiepubs.com\/products\/modernising-health-care-9781861348586","provider":"IndiePubs","version":"1.0","type":"link"}