The Crisis of the International Capitalist Order and its Implications for the Welfare State

1982 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 169-190 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vicente Navarro
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Special Focus ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Welfare State

This article analyzes the current crisis of the international capitalist order and its consequences for the welfare state policies of developed and underdeveloped capitalist countries. Special emphasis is given to the impact of the crisis on state health care policies in those countries. The first part discusses the response of capital and labor to the crisis, with special focus on capital's political and ideological interventions in the areas of production, consumption, and legitimation; and their realization as health care policies. The second part analyzes the major capitalist responses to the crisis—the “market” and the “social contract” strategies—and their consequences for health care policy. The last part critically evaluates the call for a new economic order and its limitations.

The Israeli Welfare State at Crossroads

1985 ◽  
Vol 14 (4) ◽  
pp. 513-525 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abraham Doron
Keyword(s):  
Welfare State ◽  
International Perspective ◽  
Israeli Society ◽  
Industrial Society ◽  
Trial And Error ◽  
Current Crisis ◽  
The Social ◽  
Political Forces ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Welfare State

ABSTRACTThe paper deals with the evolution of the welfare state in Israel and the impact it has had on the structure of Israeli society. It outlines the major phases of its development and stresses the social and political forces that shaped the process of trial and error in which these have evolved. The achievements and limits of the Israeli welfare state are analysed in the context of its particular circumstances as a developing industrial society that has also to cope with the integration of its various ethnic immigrant groups and with maintaining the morale of the population in face of the continuous threat to its national security. In conclusion the paper reviews the roots of the current crisis and outlines the possible strategies to deal with it, within the framework of Israeli society and in an international perspective.

Health Care Policy Formation: Analysis, Information and Research

1973 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-91 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. L. White ◽  
J. H. Murnaghan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Health Care Policy ◽  
Policy Formation ◽  
Public Administrators ◽  
Care Policy ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
The Government ◽  
Development Capability

Formation of rational health care policies, plans, and priorities by politicians and public administrators requires three kinds of support: analytical competence, purposeful information and intelligence systems, and a responsive research and development capability. This article delineates the role of each of these three activities and discusses how they can be most effectively organized within the government framework, the requisite professional skills, and the contributions of the private sector.

scholarly journals Declaring, shepherding, managing: The welfare state ethos in Finnish government programmes, 1950-2015

2017 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-22
Author(s):  
Matilda Hellman ◽  
Marjukka Monni ◽  
Anna Alanko
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Welfare State ◽  
Political Leadership ◽  
Coalition Government ◽  
Absolute Minimum ◽  
The Past ◽  
Political Perspective ◽  
The Social ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Welfare State

This study is concerned with the Finnish government’s political programmes (N=42) from the 1950s to the present. Its objective is to examine how conceptions of the welfare state have changed over the past 65 years. The analysis concentrates on the social and health care sectors as indicators of the content and nature of the ambitions set for the welfare system by the highest political leadership. The programmes were examined for their aims, character and concepts. The governments’ changing position towards its welfare political mandate emerges in three distinct periods: 1) 1950 through the 1970s, when the welfare state was being constructed; 2) the 1980s and 1990s, as the concept was further developed and internally synchronized; and 3) 2000 to 2015, a time of increasing estrangement from universal notions. The study shows that as late as 2014, the welfare state’s aims of inclusion and universalism were dramatically toned down to an absolute minimum in the government programmes. The article shows that in contemporary times, the coalition government system may have strengthened the welfare state ethos. This is a finding of great significance for a structural-political perspective on the support of welfare state ideas.

Spatial Aspects of Health-Care Employment in Britain, 2: Current Policy Initiatives

1988 ◽  
Vol 20 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-217 ◽  
Author(s):  
J Mohan
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
National Health Service ◽  
Technical Change ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Policy Initiatives ◽  
Current Health ◽  
Employment Impact ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
The Impact

In this paper I analyse the employment impact of current health-care policies in Britain. I draw on the typology developed by Massey and Meegan (1982) in which change in employment may be categorised into that caused by intensification, by rationalisation, and by technical change. I extend this typology to include restructuring, but argue that there are a number of qualitatively different applications of the notion of restructuring. It is argued that the present government have taken a number of measures to control the NHS (National Health Service) wages bill. These are outlined and it is shown that the major impact of these changes is qualitative, rather than quantitative: the key issue is less the impact on the total number of jobs available, but rather on the terms and conditions on which those jobs are offered.

The Development of Health Care Policies in Trinidad and Tobago: Autonomy or Domination?

1989 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 79-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jocelyn A. Hezekiah
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Health Care ◽  
Nursing Education ◽  
Trinidad And Tobago ◽  
The United States ◽  
Major Area ◽  
The People ◽  
Care Policies ◽  
Health Care Policies ◽  
The Impact

This article is part of a study that described and analyzed the development of nursing education in Trinidad and Tobago from self-government in 1956 to 1986, with special emphasis on the forces that helped to shape the society from colonial times, and consequently, nursing education. Adaptation and application of major concepts from theories of underdevelopment and development and colonialism formed the basis of the study's theoretical framework. The article focuses on the impact of the metropolitan countries on the development of health care policies. Because of the nation's historical legacy of colonialism and its current linkages with the United States and Canada, a major area fundamental to the analysis was to determine whether those two countries had superseded traditional British influences in determining health care policies. This raised the issue of whether or not health care policies could be autonomously developed to meet the needs of the people.

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