Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 763 g
Responding to Diversity
Buch, Englisch, 400 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 763 g
ISBN: 978-0-19-851618-7
Verlag: OUP Oxford
Health care systems in developed countries must respond to increasingly diverse populations given greater population movements as a result of globalization. We all share a common humanity yet we each have different health care needs, depending on whether we are young or old, men or women, rich or poor, disabled or able-bodied, from different ethnic and indigenous groups, or citizens or asylum-seekers. Our membership of these societal groups shapes to some extent our health needs and our use of health services. But policy-makers and professionals often seem blind to this diversity. Some groups make special claims upon the state and have different expectations regarding health care. What are the barriers to people receiving equitable health care? Should mainstream services be made more responsive to the needs of different people, or is it necessary to set up alternative health care services? The chapters in this book discuss countries and population groups that illustrate different responses to claimant groups and different ways of delivering health services.
For the first time this book brings draws together examples of how to deal with diversity from health systems across the industrialized world. It considers population groups within countries and takes a broad approach, studying inherent population diversity (age, sex), citizen issues (migrants, asylum seekers) and ethnic and indigenous groups (multiculturalism in the UK, Roma in Europe, New Zealand Maori, Australian Aborigines). It identifies barriers to accessing health care services by diverse populations and cultural groups within different countries and considers the advantages and disadvantages of different delivery models for different population groups.
This book provides an unparalleled breadth of perspectives from which to draw conclusions about how to meet the needs of societies characterised by diversity.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Minderheiten, Interkulturelle & Multikulturelle Fragen
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Gesundheitssystem, Gesundheitswesen
- Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie von Migranten und Minderheiten
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin Medizin, Gesundheitswesen Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
Weitere Infos & Material
- Foreword
- Preface
- 1: Judith Healy and Martin McKee: Different people, different services?
- 2: Dorothy Broom and Lesley Doyal: Sex and gender in health care and health policy
- 3: Christina R. Victor: Services for older people
- 4: Ian Basnett: Meeting the needs of people with disabilities
- 5: Margaret Whitehead and Barbara Hanratty: Health care for rich and poor alike
- 6: John S. Humphreys and Jane Dixon: Access and equity in Australian rural health services
- 7: Andrew Coyle and Vivien Stern: Captive populations: prison health care
- 8: Reinhard Busse and Ellen Nolte: New citizens: East Germans in a united Germany
- 9: Virginie Halley des Fontaines: Overseas citizens: citoyens de France
- 10: Solvig Ekblad: Migrants: universal health services in Sweden
- 11: Naaz Coker: Asylum seekers and refugees in the United Kingdom
- 12: Rory Williams and Seeromanie Harding: Multicultural health care in Britain
- 13: Martin Kovats: Roma health: problems and perception
- 14: Robert Griew, Beverley Sibthorpe, Ian Anderson, Sandra Eades and Ted Wilkes: 'On our terms': the politics of Aboriginal health in Australia
- 15: Sue Crengle, Peter Crampton and Alistair Woodward: Maori in Aotearoa/New Zealand
- 16: Stephen J. Kunitz: The history and politics of health care for Native Americans
- 17: Josee G. Lavoie: The value and challenges of separate services: First Nation in Canada
- 18: Judith Healy and Martin McKee: Delivering Health services in diverse societies
