AbstractTo clarify the polemics surrounding public and private responsibilities in health care, this article deals with the economic justification for the commitment of public resources. Public health measures do possess the properties of public goods or physical externalities, and yet may not have the sufficient conditions for allocating resources by political procedures. To publicly allocate resources to personal health care can only be justified by the properties of informational externalities, or regard for the humanitarian spillovers. Paradoxically, it is precisely in this latter area that a concern about minimum standards has led to a philosophical commitment to achieving maximum standards. The pursuit of such universal standards in the health sector has been the subject of growing disquiet. This dilemma is best resolved by reorientating the role of government towards an analysis of the costs and benefits of present and projected health practices.
Social Policy & AdministrationVolume 12, Issue 2 p. 136-141 Measuring Women's Unemployment Shirley Dex, Shirley Dex University of ExeterSearch for more papers by this author Shirley Dex, Shirley Dex University of ExeterSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1978 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.1978.tb00128.xCitations: 1Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume12, Issue2June 1978Pages 136-141 RelatedInformation
Social Policy & AdministrationVolume 12, Issue 1 p. 51-55 Measuring Social Well Being Fred Lewes, Fred Lewes Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social Statistics University of ExeterSearch for more papers by this author Fred Lewes, Fred Lewes Senior Lecturer in Economic and Social Statistics University of ExeterSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1978 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.1978.tb00123.xAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume12, Issue1March 1978Pages 51-55 RelatedInformation
Social Policy & AdministrationVolume 12, Issue 2 p. 89-119 Political Ambiguity and Policy: The Case of Welfare* Dilys M. Hill, Dilys M. Hill University of SouthamptonSearch for more papers by this author Dilys M. Hill, Dilys M. Hill University of SouthamptonSearch for more papers by this author First published: June 1978 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.1978.tb00126.xCitations: 2 * This research was carried out under the auspices of a Ford Foundation Fellowship. I am grateful to the Foundation; to Dr. Robert H. Haveman, Director of the Institute for Research on Poverty, University of Wisconsin at Madison and to his colleagues in the Institute; to Professor M. Edelman and Professor M. Holden Jr., both of the Department of Political Science at Madison and to Professor Herbert Kaufman and his colleagues at the Brookings Institution, Washington D. C. for their invaluable assistance. The views expressed remain those of the author. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Citing Literature Volume12, Issue2June 1978Pages 89-119 RelatedInformation
Social Policy & AdministrationVolume 12, Issue 1 p. 20-30 What Accounts for the Higher Costs of Teaching Hospitals? A. J. Culyer, A. J. Culyer University of YorkSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Wiseman, J. Wiseman University of YorkSearch for more papers by this authorM. F. Drummond, M. F. Drummond University of YorkSearch for more papers by this authorP. A. West, P. A. West University of YorkSearch for more papers by this author A. J. Culyer, A. J. Culyer University of YorkSearch for more papers by this authorJ. Wiseman, J. Wiseman University of YorkSearch for more papers by this authorM. F. Drummond, M. F. Drummond University of YorkSearch for more papers by this authorP. A. West, P. A. West University of YorkSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1978 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.1978.tb00121.xCitations: 24Read the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume12, Issue1March 1978Pages 20-30 RelatedInformation
Social Policy & AdministrationVolume 12, Issue 1 p. 3-19 The Medical Profession and the Efficiency and Equity of Health Services Alan Maynard, Alan Maynard Senior Lecturer in Economics University of York The author would like to acknowledge the Social Science Research Council for a programme research grant in Public Sector Studies at the Department of Economics and the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of York. The author's debts to his colleagues at York, especially Tony Culyer, John Cairns, Mike Drummond, Bob Lavers, Alan Peacock, Martin Snell, Arthur Walker, Alan Williams and Jack Wiseman, are gratefully acknowledged. All these people are, of course, absolved from responsibility for any errors and omissions which remain.Search for more papers by this author Alan Maynard, Alan Maynard Senior Lecturer in Economics University of York The author would like to acknowledge the Social Science Research Council for a programme research grant in Public Sector Studies at the Department of Economics and the Institute of Social and Economic Research at the University of York. The author's debts to his colleagues at York, especially Tony Culyer, John Cairns, Mike Drummond, Bob Lavers, Alan Peacock, Martin Snell, Arthur Walker, Alan Williams and Jack Wiseman, are gratefully acknowledged. All these people are, of course, absolved from responsibility for any errors and omissions which remain.Search for more papers by this author First published: March 1978 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.1978.tb00120.xCitations: 2 AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume12, Issue1March 1978Pages 3-19 RelatedInformation
THE threat of the scrounger has long pervaded discussions of the social security benefits paid to the unemployed. During 1976, however, public concern at the possible abuse of such benefits became more intense and was expressed more widely than at any time since the 1920s. Allegations of scrounging received extensive coverage in the press, and the response of the public to such claims became a major political issue. In November 1976, for example, the Labour candidate in the Workington by-electionattributed hisdefeat to “the reaction of ordinary working-class people to so-called social security scroungers”. Six months later the Conservative candidate a t Ashfield was reported to have based his sensationally successful campaign upon the three issues of “prices, income tax and social security scroungers”.’ The campaign against the scrounger appeared to lose momentum towards the end of 1977. Nonetheless, public disquiet remained, and on October 29 Hugo Young, Political Editor of the Sunday Times, concluded that unemployment was “taking on a new political colour”, since the “man in the factory” now saw himself “as more of a victim than the man in the dole-queue.”* The essence of the campaign was that abuse3 was rife, and that this necessitated both a reduction in the level of benefits paid either directly or by making them subject to tax and a stiffening of their administration. These specific demands can and must be distinguished from a more general concern as to the effects of a reduction in the gap between the income received by an individual when in work and when unemployed. Such a concern became widespread at the same time as the scrounger campaign was gathering force, and by the Spring of 1977 it was almost universally agreed that a combination of falling tax thresholds and pay restraint had weakened the incentive to work for many low paid worker^.^
Social Policy & AdministrationVolume 12, Issue 1 p. 31-50 The Growth of the British Medical Association Philip R. Jones, Philip R. Jones Dept. of Economics & Commerce University of HullSearch for more papers by this author Philip R. Jones, Philip R. Jones Dept. of Economics & Commerce University of HullSearch for more papers by this author First published: March 1978 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1467-9515.1978.tb00122.xRead the full textAboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Volume12, Issue1March 1978Pages 31-50 RelatedInformation
