Health Promotion International, Vol. 14, No. 4, 377-380,
December 1999
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Resource Reviews |
Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure
D. Drache and T. Sullivan (eds) Routledge, London, 1999
Quality, Evidence and Effectiveness in Health Promotion: Striving for Certainties
J. K. Davies and G. Macdonald (eds) Routledge, London, 1998
Managing for Health: Implementing the New Health Agenda
D. J. Hunter Institute for Public Policy Research, London, 1999
Department of Health and Aged Care, Canberra, Australia Health sector reform has been high on the international agenda for more than a decade, driven by rising costs, globalization and a political resurgence of interest in market solutions to what were previously seen as the responsibility of the welfare state. For many it is hard to remember that less than 20 years ago, ideas now taken as part of conventional wisdom were to some extent unimaginable. The first of the three books reviewed here, Drache and Sullivan's Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure provides a useful reminder of the relationship of current health care reform discourse to its wider political origins.
Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure began as a seminar on reforming Canada's health care system, held in 1996. The book contains papers presented at that meeting, and many commissioned expressly for publication. Contributors include leading international commentators on health and social policy, e.g. Yale University's Ted Marmor,
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