Consumers enter the political stage? The modernization of health care in Britain and Germany

Newman, Janet and Kuhlmann, Ellen (2007). Consumers enter the political stage? The modernization of health care in Britain and Germany. Journal of European Social Policy, 17(2), pp. 99–111.

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Abstract

New governance practices associated with the modernization of health systems within Europe focus on equipping health consumers with more information and power in their interactions with clinicians. This article uses material on health care reform in Britain and Germany to highlight ways in which consumerism is refracted through different institutional histories and current political projects. These give rise to different inflections on the meaning of consumerism, including the different associations of 'choice', and to different forms of consumer involvement as 'stakeholders' in health care systems.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Copyright Holders:	2007 The Author(s)
ISSN:	0958-9287
Academic Unit/Department:	Social Sciences > Social Policy and Criminology
Interdisciplinary Research Centre:	Centre for Citizenship, Identities and Governance (CCIG)
Item ID:	15649
Depositing User:	Colin Smith
Date Deposited:	20 Apr 2009 10:56
Last Modified:	05 Dec 2010 22:37
URI:	http://oro.open.ac.uk/id/eprint/15649

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