Technology and the Welfare State The Development of Health Care in Britain and America

Name: Technology and the Welfare State The Development of Health Care in Britain and America
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ISBN: 9780044458418

ISBN-10: 004445841X

ISBN-13: 9780044458418

Edition: 1991

Authors: Stephen Uttley

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This work is based on the proposition that the welfare state involves the production of goods and services, and that examining the technology used in such production and how it has changed, will contribute to the understanding of particular services and of the development of the welfare state.

Book details

List price: $19.95
Copyright year: 1991
Publisher: Routledge
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 192
Size: 5.51" wide x 8.66" long
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



List of Tables


Acknowledgements


Introduction


Health Care and Technological Change


Technological Change and Social Service Production


Health care and the development of welfare states


Health care and the economy


Technology and social service production


Technological Change and Health Care


Health care: Defining the technological base of a social service


Classifying health care technologies


Health care technology as a dynamic process


Examples of change in health care technology


Production, Consumption and Health Care Technology


Location and control


Technological change and the factors of production


Technological change and consumption of health care


Marketing innovations and consumption


'Social innovation' and future health care production and consumption


Political Innovation and Health Care


Direct public provision and funding


Indirect action by government


Government and convergence of health care systems?


Technological Change and Economic Cycles


Innovation and economic cycles


Health care innovation and long-wave cycles


Government action, health care and long waves


Technology and the Welfare State


Technology and the Welfare State: A Missing Dimension


Explanations for the welfare state


Technology and health care: an overview


Adding technology: an ingredient in 'cumulative synthesis' of knowledge building about the welfare state


Innovation as a response to crisis in the welfare state


References


Additional reading


Index