Public Health in a Retrenchment Era: An Alternative to ManagerialismSUNY Press, 1985 M01 1 - 162 pages Public Health in a Retrenchment Era illustrates the political and economic reality of making cutbacks in traditional government-sponsored programs. This book critically examines the issues concerning cutbacks by focusing on Los Angeles County, which has one of the largest public health service systems in the nation, and explains how cutbacks were legitimized and implemented. Muller and Ventriss propose that the retrenchment process offers an opportunity for policymakers and citizens alike to critically examine new choices which may not have existed in periods of fiscal expansion. They criticize the present focus on managerialism and propose an alternative approach. Called the co-possibility model, it enhances a more humane and substantive policy approach in making cutbacks. This model links the citizen, policymaker, and public organization in a new relationship, fostering an environment for policy experimentation and innovation in this retrenchment era. |
Contents
The Challenge for Public Health | 1 |
Retrenchment as an Opportunity | 2 |
Brief Historical Overview | 4 |
Values of the Public Health Tradition | 12 |
Human Service Organization Characteristics | 14 |
Contemporary Organizational Issues | 18 |
Contemporary Health Policy | 22 |
Underlying Values of Retrenchment | 28 |
Concluding Comments | 77 |
Consequences of Cutback Management | 81 |
Citizen Action | 82 |
Martin Luther King Jr General Hospital MLK | 89 |
Pacoima Health Center | 93 |
An Alternative Investing with People | 99 |
Lessons from Los Angeles | 100 |
Alternative Frameworks for Service Delivery | 104 |
The Challenge | 30 |
Retrenchment A Conceptualization | 35 |
The Context | 36 |
A Critique of the Levine Model | 39 |
A PoliticalIdeological Model of the Retrenchment Process | 45 |
A Theoretical Construct | 49 |
A Brief Theoretical Overview | 54 |
Conclusion | 55 |
The Los Angeles County Experience | 57 |
The Los Angeles County Department of Health Services | 58 |
Policy Making and the DHS | 59 |
Evolving Fiscal Problems | 61 |
The County Health Budget | 66 |
Private Sector Contracting | 75 |
The Managerial Disposition | 110 |
CoPossibility Strategies | 112 |
A Model | 116 |
Conclusion | 123 |
Appendix | 125 |
Events Attended | 129 |
Notes | 131 |
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Articles | 149 |
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Other Written Material | 157 |
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Public Health in a Retrenchment Era: An Alternative to Managerialism Helen J. Muller,Curtis Ventriss No preview available - 1985 |
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