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Patients, Power and Politics : From Patients to Citizens
Patients Power and Politics From Patients to Citizens Author:Christine Hogg Consumerism, partnerships with patients and user involvement are seen as key to future health care and healthy public policies. Government, professionals and drug companies are eager to make alliances with users in negotiating how health care should be provided. Yet users, whose views do not coincide with other more powerful interests, are less ... more »likely to be heard in debates about the future of health care. Patients, Power and Politics helps to fill this gap by looking at health policy from the point of view of health service users. The book outlines how individuals as patients, healthy people and research subjects relate to health services and how the public, as citizens, influence health care and public policies at local, national and international levels. It also shows what health policy and health services might look like if they were based on the experiences and concerns of its users.Patients, Power and Politics makes an original contribution to debates in health policy, and is an accessible and engaging book which critically examines the future of health care and public health policy from the perspective of users and citizens. It will be invaluable reading for students and academics in health care, health ethics, health policy, planners and practitioners in health and social care, and voluntary organisations and user groups.« less