Continuity and Crisis in the NHS. Edited by R. Loveridge and K. Starkey. Open University Press, Buckingham, 1992. No. of pages: 237. ISBN 0-335-15599-5
✍ Scribed by John Hutton
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1994
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 114 KB
- Volume
- 3
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 1057-9230
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✦ Synopsis
BOOK REVIEWS
health care and on the liberating benefits of the market and private diversity. There is virtually no acknowledgement of the extravagance, inefficiency, or inequity possible and visible in the private health systems of some 'established market economies'. Thus, at the end of the day, this reviewer was left feeling that ideology and rhetoric had triumphed over reason and DALYs. This is a pity because the report contains much valuable material about the burden of illness and the potential for effective and inexpensive health gain. The process by which poverty creates ill health is repeatedly identified and the notion that wealth creates health is implied. One suspects, sadly, that many nation states and their politicians would be more responsive to a message that health creates wealth.