Description: This collection examines the role that case-studies play in understanding and explaining British health policy. Overall, the chapters cover the key health policy literatures in terms of the policy process, analytical frameworks and some of the seminal moments of the NHS. They have been written by leading health policy researchers in sociology, social policy, management and organisation studies. The collection explores and promotes the case-study as an under-used method and thereby encourages a more reflective approach to policy learning by practitioners and academics. The book will appeal to under-graduates, post-graduates and academics in social policy, public management and health services research.
Brief description: Mark Exworthy is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the University of Birmingham.
Review Quotes: "This book..will appeal to those who want to understand better health policy change in the NHS since its inception, as well as to a much wider readership ..who are interested in developing the field of health policy analysis by paying greater attention to theories and methods." Gill Walt, Journal of Social Policy