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Federalism, Physicians, and Public Policy: A Comparison of Health Care Reform in Canada and Brazil.
- Source :
- Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis; Jun2020, Vol. 22 Issue 3, p250-265, 16p
- Publication Year :
- 2020
-
Abstract
- This article uses comparative historical analysis to explore physicians' involvement in health care reform in Canada and Brazil. Drawing on historical institutionalism, the analysis stresses how, beyond partisanship, physicians build consensus around and promote specific policy ideas, and how federal institutions shape physicians' mobilization. In both countries, physicians' mobilization shaped the emergence of universal health care coverage, but in quite different ways, because of the differing federal institutions. Although the Brazilian medical lobby was far more heterogeneous than the Canadian profession, one faction was able to mobilize at the local level to pursue policy ideas favorable to universal health coverage. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- HEALTH care reform
HEALTH policy
PARTISANSHIP
PHYSICIANS
FEDERAL government
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 13876988
- Volume :
- 22
- Issue :
- 3
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 144637560
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/13876988.2019.1603357