Policy Press
ELEVEN Policy, practice and obstacles
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Graham Scambler
Abstract
The focus in Chapter Eleven is on conceiving and delivering effective policies and practices given the very real, entrenched structural, cultural and agential obstacles to their construction implementation. While the bulk of the chapter addresses the situation in core countries such as the UK, the discussion has sustained relevance also to the global context. Sample sets of ‘attainable’ to ‘aspirational’ change in relation to national and global health inequalities, climate change and warfare are broached and defended as part of a programme of ‘permanent reform’.
Abstract
The focus in Chapter Eleven is on conceiving and delivering effective policies and practices given the very real, entrenched structural, cultural and agential obstacles to their construction implementation. While the bulk of the chapter addresses the situation in core countries such as the UK, the discussion has sustained relevance also to the global context. Sample sets of ‘attainable’ to ‘aspirational’ change in relation to national and global health inequalities, climate change and warfare are broached and defended as part of a programme of ‘permanent reform’.
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of boxes vi
- About the author vii
- Introduction 1
- The healthy society 9
- Social conditions and health inequalities 24
- Markets, profits and health care 44
- The structure/culture axis 59
- COVID-19 and the fractured society 76
- The challenge of global inequality in the Anthropocene 96
- Planet Earth 107
- War 120
- Why theory matters 132
- A theoretical framework for achieving the healthy society 154
- Policy, practice and obstacles 181
- The future: whither sociology? 204
- References 215
- Index 228
Chapters in this book
- Front Matter i
- Contents v
- List of boxes vi
- About the author vii
- Introduction 1
- The healthy society 9
- Social conditions and health inequalities 24
- Markets, profits and health care 44
- The structure/culture axis 59
- COVID-19 and the fractured society 76
- The challenge of global inequality in the Anthropocene 96
- Planet Earth 107
- War 120
- Why theory matters 132
- A theoretical framework for achieving the healthy society 154
- Policy, practice and obstacles 181
- The future: whither sociology? 204
- References 215
- Index 228
