System Reforms for Addressing Health Inequalities
A special issue of Healthcare (ISSN 2227-9032). This special issue belongs to the section "Health Policy".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2023) | Viewed by 2231
Special Issue Editors
Interests: health policy; dental care reform
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Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The challenges of addressing health inequalities are enormous. Numerous reports highlight both their existence and the importance in addressing them; far fewer focus on how this can be achieved.
This Special Issue of Healthcare seeks to address this shortcoming and invites original research, reports, and reviews on both the theoretical and practical challenges that care delivery systems must overcome and examples where they are already doing so to help to reduce health inequalities. This Special Issue aims to inform debate on the needed changes in health policy, systems, and environments that communities and care professionals find themselves in to ensure better outcomes.
The work is not limited to the health sector. Changes include better engagement between the public and professions, contractual reform, public involvement in decision making, intersectoral working, consistency in approaches, and ensuring access to care. All may have an impact, but why were they instigated, what were the challenges in adoption, and not least, are the developments sustainable?
It is hoped that health policy specialists, policymakers, and those in political office will use the content of the Special Issue as a resource for helping to address inequalities.
Dr. Paul A. Batchelor
Dr. James P. Kingsland
Guest Editors
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Keywords
- inequalities
- health care delivery
- intersectoral collaboration
- education and training
- governance
- legislation
- social care
- finance
- health promotion
- welfare reform
- voluntary sector
