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This chapter provides a brief introduction to some of the major theoretical perspectives which have been used to analyse health policies and practice. The brevity with which each perspective is described is intended to provide a succinct but adequate foundation on which a more detailed analysis of health care provision will be built in subsequent chapters. Each perspective offers a distinctive approach to the analysis of policies and practice and a concomitant prescription for the future direction both should take. Adherence to one, rather than another, theoretical perspective determines not only the relative importance attached to specific issues, but also the evidence selected for analysis. For example, adopting a feminist perspective means that explaining women’s experience of and treatment within the health system, is an issue of primary importance. Gender is used by feminists as a primary explanatory concept and evidence is therefore selected which exemplifies the different and unequal treatment of women and men within the health care system.
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Bradshaw, Y. (1997). Perspectives. In: North, N., Bradshaw, Y. (eds) Perspectives in Health Care. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-13469-4_1
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