TY - JOUR
T1 - Exploring the neglected and hidden dimensions of large-scale healthcare change
AU - Jones, Lorelei
AU - Fraser, Alec
AU - Stewart, Ellen
PY - 2019/5/16
Y1 - 2019/5/16
N2 - Forms of large-scale change, such as the regiona l re-distribution of clinical services, are an enduring reform orthodoxy in health systems of high-income countries. The topic is of relevance and importance to medical sociology because of the way that large-scale change significantly disrupts and transforms therapeutic landscapes, relationships and practices. In this paper we review the literature on large-scale change. We find that the literature is dominated by competing forms of knowledge, such as health services research, and show how sociology can contribute new and critical perspectives and insights on what is for many people a troubling issue.
AB - Forms of large-scale change, such as the regiona l re-distribution of clinical services, are an enduring reform orthodoxy in health systems of high-income countries. The topic is of relevance and importance to medical sociology because of the way that large-scale change significantly disrupts and transforms therapeutic landscapes, relationships and practices. In this paper we review the literature on large-scale change. We find that the literature is dominated by competing forms of knowledge, such as health services research, and show how sociology can contribute new and critical perspectives and insights on what is for many people a troubling issue.
U2 - 10.1111/1467-9566.12923
DO - 10.1111/1467-9566.12923
M3 - Article
JO - Sociology of Health & Illness
JF - Sociology of Health & Illness
SN - 0141-9889
ER -