Accessing health care : responding to diversity / edited by Judith Healy and Martin McKee
- Bib ID:
- 4232547
- Format:
- Book
- Description:
-
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2004
- xvii, 379 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
- ISBN:
-
- 9780198516187
- 0198516185
- Summary:
-
"Health care systems in developed countries must respond to increasingly diverse populations given greater population movements as a result of globalization. We all share a common humanity yet we each have different health care needs, depending on whether we are young or old, men or women, rich or poor, disabled or able-bodied, from different ethnic and indigenous groups, or citizens or asylum-seekers. Our membership of these societal groups shapes to some extent our health needs and our use of health services. But policy-makers and professionals often seem blind to this diversity. Some groups make special claims upon the state and have different expectations regarding health care. What are the barriers to people receiving equitable health care? Should mainstream services be made more responsive to the needs of different people, or is it necessary to set up alternative health care services? The chapters in this book discuss countries and population groups that illustrate different responses to claimant groups and different ways of delivering health services. For the first time this book brings draws together examples of how to deal with diversity from health systems across the industrialized world. It considers population groups within countries and takes a broad approach, studying inherent population diversity (age, sex), citizen issues (migrants, asylum seekers) and ethnic and indigenous groups (multiculturalism in the UK, Roma in Europe, New Zealand Maori, Australian Aborigines). It identifies barriers to accessing health care services by diverse populations and cultural groups within different countries and considers the advantages and disadvantages of different delivery models for different population groups." -- BOOK JACKET.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Subject:
- Other authors/contributors:
- Copyright:
-
In Copyright
You may copy under some circumstances, for example you may copy a portion for research or study. Order a copy through Copies Direct to the extent allowed under fair dealing. Contact us for further information about copying.
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 2004
Copyright status may not be correct if data in the record is incomplete or inaccurate. Other access conditions may also apply. For more information please see: Copyright in library collections.
Request this item
Request this item to view in the Library’s reading room.
Feedback
Similar items
- International psychotherapy : theories, research, and cross-cultural implications / edited by Lynn Simek-Downing
- Approaches to cross-cultural psychiatry / Edited by Jane M. Murphy and Alexander H. Leighton
- Transcultural health and social care : development of culturally competent practitioners / edited by Irena Papadopoulos
- Current perspectives in cultural psychiatry / edited by Edward F. Foulks ... [et al.]
- Transcultural nursing in multicultural Australia / [edited by Akram Omeri and Elizabeth Cameron-Traub]