scholarly journals On the Political Complementarity between Health Care and Social Security

2001 ◽  
Author(s):  
Carlos Bethencourt ◽  
Vincenzo Galasso
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Security ◽  
The Political

‘Some Abstract Socialistic Ideal or Principle’: British Reactions to New Zealand's 1938 Social Security Act

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-75
Author(s):  
Linda Bryder ◽  
John Stewart
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Health Care Reform ◽  
Primary Sources ◽  
The Political ◽  
Social Security Act ◽  
Political Left ◽  
The Impact ◽  
British Health

This article, utilising British and New Zealand primary sources, examines the impact of New Zealand's 1938 Social Security Act on British health care reform. The Act, brought in by the Dominion's first Labour government, sought to socialize health care. It was opposed by most New Zealand and British doctors, organised by the British Medical Association in both countries; but supported by the political left in both New Zealand and Britain. This episode is neglected in the historiography of Britain's National Health Service but what happened in New Zealand significantly shaped British thinking about health care reform in the late 1930s and 1940s.

Warum die Direkte Demokratie den Anstieg der Staatsausgaben in der Schweiz nicht verhindern konnte

2006 ◽  
Vol 55 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Frank Bodmer
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Social Security ◽  
Government Spending ◽  
Direct Democracy ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Strong Increase ◽  
The Political ◽  
Empirical Basis ◽  
Direkte Demokratie

AbstractSwitzerland experienced a strong increase in government spending during the 1990’s. The immediate reasons are well-known: higher expenditure for the elderly and other areas of social security as well as higher expenditure for health care make up most of the increase. The political reasons are not that clear, however. A by now large literature argues that direct democracy in Switzerland reduces government spending at the level of cantons and municipalities. First, the theoretical and empirical basis for this claim is critically reviewed. Second, it is found that the variation of direct democracy between cantons had no effect on the growth of government spending during the 1990’s. Third, the effect of direct democracy on the level of spending is not negative in all specifications and was decreasing during the 1990’s.

Depressions Plural

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
K W M (Bill) Fulford ◽  
David Crepaz-Keay ◽  
Giovanni Stanghellini
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Mental Health ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Mental Health Care ◽  
Personal Values ◽  
The Political ◽  
Medical Law ◽  
Isaiah Berlin ◽  
Political Philosopher

This chapter examines how values influence the heterogeneity of depression. The plurality of values is increasingly significant for contemporary person-centred mental health care with its emphasis on quality of life and development of self-manvnagement skills. Values-based practice is a partner with medical law invn working with the plurality of personal values. The chapter explains what values are, shows how the plurality of values influences the heterogeneity of depression at several levels, and provides an overview of values-based practice. It looks at the resources available for combining values-based practice with medical law in contemporary person-centred care and indicates some of the challenges this raises. It concludes with a brief reflection on these challenges understood as an instance of what the political philosopher Isaiah Berlin called the challenge of pluralism.

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