Rethinking professional governance : : International directions in healthcare / / ed. by Ellen Kuhlmann, Mike Saks.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Bristol University Press Backlist eBook-Package 2013-1995
• MitwirkendeR: Allsop, Judith,; Bourgeault, Ivy Lynn,; Boyce, Rosalie A.,; Burau, Viola,; Calnan, Michael,; Dahle, Rannveig,; Darling, Elizabeth,; Formadi, Katalin,; Iarskaia-Smirnova, Elena,; Jones, Kathryn,; Kuhlmann, Ellen,; Novelskaite, Aurelija,; Pahor, Majda,; Ribeiro, Joana Sousa,; Riska, Elianne,; Romanov, Pavel,; Rowe, Rosemary,; Saks, Mike,; Skogheim, Gry,; Vrangbæk, Karsten,; Wrede, Sirpa,
• HerausgeberIn: Kuhlmann, Ellen,; Saks, Mike,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol : : Policy Press, , [2008]; ©2008
• Year of Publication: 2008
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (256 p.)

This original and innovative book opens up new perspectives in health policy debate, examining the emerging international trends in the governance of health professions and the significance of national contexts for the changing health workforce. In bringing together research from a wide range of continental European countries as well as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia, the contributors highlight different arenas of governance, as well as the various players involved in the policy process. They expand the public debate on professional governance - hitherto mainly limited to medical self-regulation - to encompass a broad span of health care providers, from nurses and midwives to alternative therapists and health support workers. The book provides new data and geopolitical perspectives in the debate over how to govern health care. It helps to better understand both the enabling conditions for, and the barriers to, making professionals more accountable to the interests of a changing public. This book will be a valuable resource for students at an undergraduate and postgraduate level, particularly for health programmes, sociology of professions and comparative health policy, but also for academics, researchers and managers working in health care.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Contents -- List of tables and figures -- Notes on contributors -- Changing patterns of health professional governance -- New directions in the governance of healthcare -- Protecting patients: international trends in medical governance -- Global markets and national pathways of medical re-regulation -- Governing beyond markets and managerialism: professions as mediators -- Trust relations and changing professional governance: theoretical challenges -- Professionalism meets entrepreneurialism and managerialism -- Drivers and barriers to integration: health policies and professional development -- Collaborative care and professional boundaries: maternity care in Canada -- Interprofessional relationships: doctors and nurses in Slovenia -- Educating generalists: flexibility and identity in auxiliary nursing in Finland -- Culture matters: integration of folk medicine into healthcare in Russia -- Policy dynamics: marginal groups in the healthcare division of labour in the UK -- Workforce dynamics: gender, migration and mobility -- Free riders in a fluid system: gender traps in agency nursing in Norway -- From health to tourism: being mobile in the wellness sector in Hungary -- Migration and occupational integration: foreign health professionals in Portugal -- Professionals in transition: physicians’ careers, migration and gender in Lithuania -- Health policy and workforce dynamics: the future -- Index