The Welfare State Reader or Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations

The Welfare State Reader

Author: Christopher Pierson

'The Welfare State Reader’ has rapidly established itself as vital source of outstanding original research. In the second edition of this highly respected reader, Pierson and Castles have comprehensively overhauled the content, bringing it wholly up-to-date with contemporary discussions about this most crucial area of social and political life. The book includes almost twenty new carefully-edited selections, all reflecting the very latest thinking and research in welfare state studies. These readings are organised around a series of current debates – on welfare regimes, on globalization, on Europeanization, on demographic change and the political challenges of the new century. There are also two substantial sections devoted to the future of welfare – assessing the new risks and new opportunities that confront policy-makers in an increasingly complex political environment. Each section, as well as the volume overall, is set in context by an editorial introduction.

As well as bringing together classic debates, The Welfare State Reader constitutes an invaluable guide to what is happening at the cutting-edge of welfare research. Read either independently or alongside he third edition of Pierson’s ‘Beyond the Welfare State?', it will give the reader an unrivalled overview of debates surrounding the welfare state.
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Table of Contents:

	Acknowledgements
	Editors' Note
	Editors' Introduction	1
I	Approaches to Welfare
	The First Welfare State?	11
	The Welfare State in Historical Perspective	18
	Citizenship and Social Class	32
	Universalism versus Selection	42
	What is Social Justice?	51
	The Fiscal Crisis of the State	63
	Some Contradictions of the Modern Welfare State	67
	The Power Resources Model	77
	The Meaning of the Welfare State	90
	The Two Wars against Poverty	96
	The New Politics of the New Poverty	107
	Feminism and Social Policy	119
	The Patriarchal Welfare State	133
II	Debates and Issues
	Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalism	154
	The Real Worlds of Welfare Capitalism	170
	Towards a European Welfare State?	190
	Is the European Social Model Fragmenting?	207
	Social Welfare and Competitiveness	234
	Negative Integration: States and the Loss of Boundary Control	254
	Challenges to Welfare: External Constraints	257
	National Economic Governance	263
	Social Security around the World	271
	On Averting the Old Age Crisis	281
	Intergenerational Conflict and the Welfare State: American and British Perspectives	293
	The New Politics of the Welfare State	309
	Welfare State Retrenchment Revisited	320
III	The Futures of Welfare
	High-Risk Strategy	337
	The Implications of Ecological Thought for Social Welfare	343
	Basic Income and the Two Dilemmas of the Welfare State	355
	The Welfare State and Postmodernity	360
	Positive Welfare	369
	Subject Index	380
	Name Index	400

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Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations

Author: Brian W Amy

Managerial Epidemiology for Health Care Organizations provides readers with a thorough and comprehensive understanding of the application of epidemiological principles to the delivery of health care services and management of health care organizations. As health administration becomes evidence- and population-based, it becomes critical to understand the impact of disease on populations of people in a service area. This book also addresses the need of health organizations’ to demonstrate emergency preparedness and respond to bioterrorism threats. A follow-up to the standard text in the field, this book introduces core epidemiology principles and clearly illustrates their essential applications in planning, evaluating, and managing health care for populations. This book demonstrates how health care executives can incorporate the practice of epidemiology into their various management functions and is rich with current examples, concepts, and case studies that reinforce the essential theories, methods, and applications of managerial epidemiology.

Allen Brinker

This text contains equal parts basic epidemiology and an overview of descriptive statistics for healthcare utilization. As stated, the intention is to introduce the student or healthcare administrator/manager to the notion of healthcare for populations. Healthcare administrators and students are the intended audience. The first section includes a complete primer on epidemiology, with chapters on the current nomenclature and science of health assessment and health economics. The authors should be complimented on the ease at which mathematical statistics are described and outlined using real life examples. All new students of epidemiology can benefit from this section of the text. The second section includes chapters on the assessment of healthcare utilization based on setting of care (ER, hospital-adult, hospital-pediatric, worksite) and the specific needs of the aged. It is, however, a shortcoming that the authors do not explain in substantial detail the pervasive impact poverty and ethnicity maintained in the assessment of health and healthcare utilization and the limitations of observational information in general. The successful implementation of information from controlled studies (evidence-based medicine) into clinical practice remains the challenge for a system whose public perception is that of managed cost and not managed care. The first section is an enjoyable and readable primer on epidemiology. The second section, with chapters on utilization of healthcare, is informative and provides the groundwork for anyone inclined to begin study of healthcare utilization by objective means. The book does not, however, lend itself to the design or redesign of any healthcaresystem. The authors, both of whom have outstanding credentials and experience in this area, should be credited with an excellent, basic textbook, but perhaps an over-reaching title.

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Reviewer: Allen Brinker, MD, MS (Private Practice)
Description: This text contains equal parts basic epidemiology and an overview of descriptive statistics for healthcare utilization.
Purpose: As stated, the intention is to introduce the student or healthcare administrator/manager to the notion of healthcare for populations.
Audience: Healthcare administrators and students are the intended audience.
Features: The first section includes a complete primer on epidemiology, with chapters on the current nomenclature and science of health assessment and health economics. The authors should be complimented on the ease at which mathematical statistics are described and outlined using real life examples. All new students of epidemiology can benefit from this section of the text. The second section includes chapters on the assessment of healthcare utilization based on setting of care (ER, hospital-adult, hospital-pediatric, worksite) and the specific needs of the aged. It is, however, a shortcoming that the authors do not explain in substantial detail the pervasive impact poverty and ethnicity maintained in the assessment of health and healthcare utilization and the limitations of observational information in general. The successful implementation of information from controlled studies (evidence-based medicine) into clinical practice remains the challenge for a system whose public perception is that of managed cost and not managed care.
Assessment: The first section is an enjoyable and readable primer on epidemiology. The second section, with chapters on utilization of healthcare, is informative and provides the groundwork for anyone inclined to begin study of healthcare utilization by objective means. The book does not, however, lend itself to the design or redesign of any healthcare system. The authors, both of whom have outstanding credentials and experience in this area, should be credited with an excellent, basic textbook, but perhaps an over-reaching title.

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