The Neoliberal and Socialist Approaches to Health and Social Policy

The Neoliberal and
Socialist

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Current trends in data warehousing, business intelligence and data mining..........................1
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................3
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................2

INTRODUCTION
Social policy is a concern with the way in which societies across the world helps in
meeting human needs for education, security, health and well- being. it helps in understanding
ways in which societies should respond to global challenges of social, demographic and
economic change, and of poverty, migration and globalisation (Rotarou and Sakellariou, 2017).
This assignment will lay emphasis on Neo-liberal approach and socialist approach to health and
social policy with their advantages and disadvantages.
MAIN BODY
Neo-liberal approach to health and social policy
Neo-liberal approach
Neoliberalism is a kind of policy model which is used for bridging social studies, politics
and economics that focuses on transferring economic factors control to private sector from public
sector. It focuses on free market capitalism, away from government regulations, spending and
public ownership. Neoliberal reforms lead to deep changes within healthcare system all around
the world by laying emphasis on free market rather than right to health. In other words, it can be
said that it focuses on economic indicators rather than healthcare indicators which can further
lead to category of disempowered people whose healthcare needs are subordinated to the market.
Due to current economic crises this approach has again come under scrutiny and most of the
organizations today are adopting these measures in order to decrease their overall economic
budget expenditure (Sakellariou and Rotarou, 2017). Adaptation of this policy has impacted
healthcare sector and general population as health inequalities because of this are continuously
increasing. This approach is basically adopted to overcome crises stricken in developing
countries by prescribing a series of reforms or policies. These polices helps in achieving macro-
economic stabilization, reducing government’s role in the economy, privatising public assets,
and reducing public expenditure. This approach is basically focus on general orientation towards
a strongly market-based approach, which emphasises minimalization of the State, deregulation,
privatisation, and the emergence of individual responsibility. This approach is used for optimal
functioning of the market and enhance welfare dimension of the state. However as a result
healthcare facilities get more expensive
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