Because health systems are conceptualized as social systems, embedded in social contexts
and shaped by human agency, values are a key factor in health system change. As such …

In this paper, we draw upon and build on three presentations which were part of the plenary
session on 'Structural Drivers of Health Inequities' at the National Conference on Health …

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This book is about global social policy. Global social policy consists of two things: first, it is
the social policy prescriptions for national social policy being articulated by global actors …

Financialization is promoted by alliances of multilateral 'development'organizations, national
governments and owners and institutions of private capital. In the healthcare sector, the …

Entrenched poor health and health inequity are important public health problems.
Conventionally, solutions to such problems originate from the health care sector, a …

Arguably, the most important problem at the intersection of sociology and epidemiology is
how to understand the pervasive positive relationship between various indicators of social …

Winner of the 2021 BPS Book Award: Academic Text category, this groundbreaking book
employs a transdisciplinary and poststructuralist methodology to develop the concept of …

The main challenges in international health are to scale up effective health interventions in
low-and middle-income countries in order to reach a higher proportion of the population …

This article defines paid care work and explains why it has become an important arena for
research and policy. Drawing on cross‐national and country‐level analyses of selected …