- 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
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