Democratizing Health

Edited by the late Hans Löfgren, formerly Deakin University, Australia, Evelyne de Leeuw, Université de Montréal, Canada and Michael Leahy, Deakin University, Australia

• Contents:1. Introduction – Consumer Groups and the Democratization of Health PolicyMichael Leahy, Hans Löfgren and Evelyne de Leeuw2. Health Activism in the Age of GovernanceTimothy Milewa3. Health Consumer Groups in the United Kingdom: Progress or Stagnation?Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott4. Citizens, Consumers and Stakeholders in European Health Policy Meri Koivusalo and Jonathan Tritter5. The People’s Health Movement: Health for All, Now!Prem Chandran John and David G. Legge6. Aboriginal Community Control and Decolonizing Health Policy: A Yarn from AustraliaBronwyn Fredericks, Karen Adams and Rebecca Edwards 7. The Irish Health Service’s Expert Advisory Groups: Spaces for Advancing Epistemological Justice?Orla O’Donovan8. Patient Empowerment in the NetherlandsAtie Schipaanboord, Diana Delnoij and Roland Bal9. Health Policy in Germany: Consumer Groups in a Corporatist Polity Jens Geissler10. Austrian Health Consumer Groups: Voices Gaining Strength?Rudolf Forster, Gudrun Braunegger-Kallinger and Karl Krajic 11. Malaysia: The Consumer Voice in the Policy Process Simon Barraclough and Phua Kai Lit12. From Activism to State Inclusion: Health Consumer Groups in AustraliaHans Löfgren, Michael Leahy and Evelyne de Leeuw13. Health Consumers in Canada: Swimming Against a Neo-liberal TideJohn Church and Wendy Armstrong14. Empowering Health Care Consumers in the United StatesMichael H. Fox and Anna Lambertson 15. Health Policy in the United States: Consumers and Citizens in a Market Polity Christina Nuñez Daw, Denise Truong and Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau16. Health Consumer Groups and the Pharmaceutical Industry: Is Transparency the Answer? Agnes Vitry and Hans LöfgrenIndex