Professional Health Regulation in the Public Interest: International Perspectives
John Martyn Chamberlain, Mike Dent, and Mike Saks
Abstract
There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still dominated by medical interests. Bringing together leading academics worldwide, this collection compares and critically examines the ways in which different countries are regulating healthcare in general, a ... More
There are significant variations in how healthcare systems and health professionals are regulated globally. One feature that they increasingly have in common is an emphasis on the value of including members of the public in quality assurance processes. While many argue that this will help better serve the public interest, others question how far the changing regulatory reform agenda is still dominated by medical interests. Bringing together leading academics worldwide, this collection compares and critically examines the ways in which different countries are regulating healthcare in general, and health professions in particular, in the interest of users and the wider public. It is the first book in the Sociology of Health Professions series.
Keywords:
health professions,
regulation,
sociology of health professions,
healthcare,
quality assurance processes,
patient safety
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2018 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447332268 |
| Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: January 2019 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447332268.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
John Martyn Chamberlain, editor
Swansea University
Mike Dent, editor
Staffordshire University
Mike Saks, editor
University of Suffolk
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