Democratizing health consumer groups in the policy process edited by Hans Löfgren, Evelyn de Leeuw, Michael Leahy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction-- consumer groups and the democratization of health policy / Michael Leahy, Hans Löfgren and Evelyne de Leeuw -- Health activism in the age of governance / Timothy Milewa -- Health consumer groups in the United Kingdom : progress or stagnation? / Kathryn Jones and Rob Baggott -- Citizens, consumers and stakeholders in European health policy / Meri Koivusalo and Jonathan Tritter -- The people's health movement : health for all, now! / Prem Chandran John and David G. Legge --- Aboriginal community control and decolonizing health policy : a yarn from Australia / Bronwyn Fredericks, Karen Adams and Rebecca Edwards -- The Irish Health Service's expert advisory groups : spaces for advancing epistemological justice? / Orla O'Donovan -- Patient empowerment in the Netherlands / Atie Schipaanboord, Diana Delnoij and Roland Bal -- Health policy in Germany : consumer groups in a corporatist polity / Jens Geissler -- Austrian health consumer groups : voices gaining strength? / Rudolf Forster, Gudrun Braunegger-Kallinger and Karl Krajic -- Malaysia : the consumer voice in the policy process / Simon Barraclough and Phua Kai Lit -- From activism to state inclusion : health consumer groups in Australia / Hans Löfgren, Michael Leahy and Evelyne de Leeuw -- Health consumers in Canada : swimming against a neo-liberal tide / John Church. and Wendy Armstrong --Empowering health care consumers in the United States / Michael H. Fox and Anna Lambertson -- Health policy in the United States : consumers and citizens in a market polity / Christina Nuñez Daw, Denise Truong and Pauline Vaillancourt Rosenau -- Health consumer groups and the pharmaceutical industry : is transparency the answer? / Agnes Vitry and Hans Löfgren.

This book examines the important role of consumer activism in health policy in different national contexts.