The Governance of Health Conference 2017
10-12 July 2017 At the Liverpool Medical Institution 10-12 July 2017 at the Liverpool Medical Institution (LMI), 114 Mount Pleasant, Liverpool, United Kingdom.
Liverpool Medical Institution
Call for Papers:
The second half of the twentieth century witnessed a sea change in approaches to health policy making. In many health systems, there had been heavy reliance on the involvement of the medical profession through their representative bodies and advisory committees. In more recent decades, new sources of expertise have influenced the process. Individual special advisers have improved the technical expertise available to government ministers, and their number has steadily increased. Two new groups in particular have been brought into the process: management consultants and health economists. However, we still appear to know relatively little about what their real impact on health policymaking has been.
This conference will bring together academics, politicians, civil servants, and medical professionals to discuss these and other issues, historical and contemporary.
Proposals are invited for papers which consider any aspect of health policymaking, but we particularly aim to encourage debate in the following areas:
Medical expertise, clinical autonomy and the role of the professions
Economic expertise and the impact of Health Economics
Managerial expertise and the role of management consultants
Special Advisers and the relationship between politicians and experts
The role of think tanks
Reorganisation and reform in healthcare
Analysis of health systems
Theories of policymaking and health
International and comparative perspectives on health policymaking
