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State welfare systems were established when public expenditure was assumed to be an inevitable part of economic growth. By the 1980s welfare spending had come to be seen by governments globally as a burden, and new ways of funding public health and welfare services had to be considered
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Bywaters, P. and McLeod, E. (eds) (1996) Working for Equality in Health, London: Routledge.
Written by practitioners, this book outlines strategies for combatting the health care effects of inequality in all its forms.
Green, D.G. (1996) Community Without Politics: A Market Approach to Welfare Reform, London: IEA Health and Welfare Unit.
Klein, R. and Day, P. (1996) Managing Scarcity: Priority Setting and Rationing in the NHS, Buckingham: Open University Press.
In a conceptually difficult area, these books are both clear and thorough concerning the general principles involved
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Iphofen, R., Poland, F. (1998). Welfare, Ill-fare, How Fair?. In: Campling, J. (eds) Sociology in Practice for Health Care Professionals. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13879-1_14
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