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Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to explore 11 developed countries‿ health services, this ambitious text identifies which factors are associated with the strongest outcomes.

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Health services are amongst the most expensive and complex areas of social policy. This book analyses the health services of 11 developed countries. Through Qualitative Comparative Analysis it explores the links between a range of different outcome measures and levels of funding, social determinants and different types of health expenditures. It provides a rigorous account of health systems and policies in the context of their wider economies ...

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is undergoing a period of significant reform, with the reintroduction of the internal market, a focus on patient choice, and the controversial introduction of 'foundation hospitals' all central to New Labour's stra

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Reforming healthcare: What's the evidence? is the first major critical overview of the research published on healthcare reform in England from 1990 onwards by a team of leading UK health policy academics.

Designing Social Research aims to guide students and new researchers using everyday non-jargonised language through the jungle of setting up their own research study. Ian Greener provides readers an accessible combination of guidance on how to practically plan one's research and understand the underpinning methodological principles that should inform the decisions we make about the methods we plan to use. This is the perfect starter book for ...

Designing Social Research aims to guide students and new researchers using everyday non-jargonised language through the jungle of setting up their own research study. Ian Greener provides readers an accessible combination of guidance on how to practically plan one's research and understand the underpinning methodological principles that should inform the decisions we make about the methods we plan to use. This is the perfect starter book for ...

By examining the role of evidence in social policymaking and the extent of its influence, Evidence and Evaluation in Social Policy delves deeply into one of the central questions of the field for the last 20 years. While evidence-based practice has become standard in many fields, such as health policy, in the realm of social policy, it is still gaining traction. This collection chronicles the trend toward implementing evidence-based policy ove...

Reforming healthcare: What's the evidence? is the first major critical overview of the research published on healthcare reform in England from 1990 onwards by a team of leading UK health policy academics.

The UK's National Health Service (NHS) is undergoing a period of significant reform, with the reintroduction of the internal market, a focus on patient choice, and the controversial introduction of 'foundation hospitals' all central to New Labour's stra

Social Policy Review 21 provides all those interested in welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. This year, the Review takes the opportunity of the 60th anniversary of the key legislation founding the welfare state in the UK to provide a comprehensive overview of policy developments in the UK and internationally. The book brings together an exciting mix of internationally re...

Social Policy Review provides students, academics, and all those interested in UK welfare issues with critical analyses of progress and change in areas of major interest during the past year. The book presents an up-to-date and diverse review of the best in social policy scholarship. It brings together specially commissioned reviews of key areas of UK research, examining important debates in the field. It considers a range of issues, including...