"This book examines how healthcare organisations shape, adapt and resist developments in healthcare policy and practice. This is an international text bringing together contributions from around the globe and covers a wide range of different discussions in relation to the policy/practice gap"--

Part I. Africa and western Asia / Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Part II. Eastern Asia and southern Asia / Yukihiro Matsuyama -- Part III. South eastern Asia and Oceania / Jeffrey Braithwaite -- Part IV. The Americas / Julie Johnson -- Part V. Europe / Russell Mannion.