Health policy and practice in Ireland / edited by Desmond McCluskey.

Part 1: Health and health care in Ireland: a macro perspective--1. Overview of the health services--2. Mental illness in Ireland and its management--3. The evolution of Irish health policy: a sociological analysis--4. Making competition fair for health insurance in Ireland--5. Inequalities in health and health care--Part 2: The nursing role--6. Development of the role of the nurse in Ireland--7. Learning only to labour--8. The child health care service: the role of the publi health nurse--Part 3: The doctor-patient relationship--9. The changing face of general practice: the role of the family doctor--10. Patient roles, present and future.--Part 4. Disability issues--11. The contours of learning/intellectual disability--12. People with physical disability: health policy and practice--Part 5: Lay health beliefs and practices--13. Breastfeeding: issues in the implementation of policy --14. Health, illness and lifestyles

This textbook features contributions from academics, administrators and practitioners which provide a framework for understanding the relationship between the Irish health care system and the society in which it operates. Sections cover a macro perspective of health, the role of nursing and lay health beliefs.