Challenges to medical dominance

Title: Challenges to medical dominance
Creator: Germov, John
Relation: Second Opinion: An Introduction to Health Sociology p. 388-409
Relation: http://www.oup.com.au/titles/higher_ed/health_sciences/9780195520149
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Resource Type: book chapter
Date: 2014
Description: The term medical dominance refers to the fact that medicine is clearly the most powerful profession in the health system, despite compromising only 17.2 percent of the total health professional workforce (AIHW 2012), as shown in Figure 20.1. This chapter briefly explains what medical dominance is , how it was established, and the problems it poses to the delivery of optimal health care. The chapter then focuses on the various challenges to medical dominance that are said to be undermining medicine's influence over health care delivery, other health professions, and patients.
Subject: medical dominance; health care profession; McDonaldization; nurse practitioner
Identifier: http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1066933
Identifier: uon:18315
Identifier: ISBN:9780195520149
Language: eng