PMID: 2494703Jan 1, 1989Paper

The political economy of health policy in the socialist government: the record after five years of power in France, l981-1986

Social Science & Medicine
P Aiach, J Y Delanoe

Abstract

One cannot say that health was put to the forefront of the reform projects of the left-wing parties and, in particular, of the Socialist Party before their coming to power in May 1981. One cannot say, either, that after the departure of the Socialists in April 1986, the reforms that they accomplished in this area have been considerable. However, some of them are not negligible, even if one cannot yet measure all their effects completely. The policy drive has been marked by two periods. The first was characterized by a profusion of projects and by strong political promises, i.e. from June 1981 to March 1983. It was the period when the Minister of Health was a Communist and when the Social Security administration was linked to another ministry. It was the period of reforms which were promised but not realised, e.g. those concerned with health and labour, those that touched on the issue of psychiatric hospitals. It was the period, nevertheless, when some of the reforms could have been undertaken with success: the reforms of medical education, of the establishment of the Regional Observatories of Health, of the decentralisation of some sectors of the health system, of the elimination of private sector beds in public hospitals. The ...Continue Reading

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