Orla O'Donovan
Biographic Data
| ID | 4536068 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Orla O'Donovan |
| GIVEN NAMES | Orla |
| FAMILY NAME | O'Donovan |
| SIGNATURE | DONOVAN O O |
| AFFILIATIONS | University College Cork |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Tracking Transformations in Health Movement Organisations: Alzheimer's Disease Organisations and their Changing ‘Cause Regimes
In this paper, we aim to contribute to the elaboration of a framework for the systematic periodisation of health social movement organisations (HSMOs). Drawing on historical and contemporaneous data on two organisations that identify as Alzheimer's disease movement organisations (the Alzheimer's Society in Britain and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland), we consider transformations in these organisations' ‘cause regimes’. By cause regime, we refer …
Prohibiting or ‘managing’ conflict of interest? A review of policies and procedures in three European drug regulation agencies
Private Health Insurance as a Technology of Solidarity? The Myth of ‘Community’ in Irish Healthcare Policy
In Ireland, private health insurance (PHI) has long been lauded in state discourses as a fair system and, more recently, the PHI regime has been represented as embodying a unique cultural heritage founded on social commitments to community and intergenerational solidarity. Based on an analysis of Irish parliamentary (Dáil Éireann) debates between 1956 and 2007, this paper shows how the myth that PHI in Ireland serves as a ‘technology of solidarit…
Converting Patients into Consumers: Consumerism and the Charter of Rights for Hospital Patients
This paper examines consumerism in public health policy and focuses on a specific strategy to make Irish hospital services more consumer-oriented, namely, patients' charters. The first part of the paper examines different conceptualisations of the ‘new consumerism’ in the social policy literature and locates its emergence within the broader context of the ‘marketisation’ of the welfare state. A brief review of the literature on the merits and lim…
Women and employment in rural areas
Women and employment in rural areas
Tracking Transformations in Health Movement Organisations: Alzheimer's Disease Organisations and their Changing ‘Cause Regimes
In this paper, we aim to contribute to the elaboration of a framework for the systematic periodisation of health social movement organisations (HSMOs). Drawing on historical and contemporaneous data on two organisations that identify as Alzheimer's disease movement organisations (the Alzheimer's Society in Britain and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland), we consider transformations in these organisations' ‘cause regimes’. By cause regime, we refer …
Women and employment in rural areas
Converting Patients into Consumers: Consumerism and the Charter of Rights for Hospital Patients
This paper examines consumerism in public health policy and focuses on a specific strategy to make Irish hospital services more consumer-oriented, namely, patients' charters. The first part of the paper examines different conceptualisations of the ‘new consumerism’ in the social policy literature and locates its emergence within the broader context of the ‘marketisation’ of the welfare state. A brief review of the literature on the merits and lim…
Private Health Insurance as a Technology of Solidarity? The Myth of ‘Community’ in Irish Healthcare Policy
In Ireland, private health insurance (PHI) has long been lauded in state discourses as a fair system and, more recently, the PHI regime has been represented as embodying a unique cultural heritage founded on social commitments to community and intergenerational solidarity. Based on an analysis of Irish parliamentary (Dáil Éireann) debates between 1956 and 2007, this paper shows how the myth that PHI in Ireland serves as a ‘technology of solidarit…
Prohibiting or ‘managing’ conflict of interest? A review of policies and procedures in three European drug regulation agencies
Tracking Transformations in Health Movement Organisations: Alzheimer's Disease Organisations and their Changing ‘Cause Regimes
In this paper, we aim to contribute to the elaboration of a framework for the systematic periodisation of health social movement organisations (HSMOs). Drawing on historical and contemporaneous data on two organisations that identify as Alzheimer's disease movement organisations (the Alzheimer's Society in Britain and the Alzheimer Society of Ireland), we consider transformations in these organisations' ‘cause regimes’. By cause regime, we refer …
Political science (5 works) · Law (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Irish (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Health Services Management and Policy (2 works) · Healthcare innovation and challenges (2 works) · Political economy (2 works)