Healthy or Sick ? - Coevolution of Health Care Public Health in a Comparative Perspective

The book analyses how policies to prevent diseases are related to policies aiming to cure illnesses. It does this by conducting a comparative historical analysis of Australia, Germany, Switzerland, the UK, and the US. It also demonstrates how the politicization of the medical profession contributes to the success of preventative health policy. The book argues that two factors lead to a close relationship of curative and preventative elements in health policies and institutions: a strong national government that possesses a wide range of control over subnational levels of government, and whether professional organizations (especially the medical profession) perceive preventative and non-medical health policy as important and campaign for it politically. The book provides a historical and comparative narrative to substantiate this claim empirically.

Product details

• Authors: Philipp Trein, Philipp (Universite De Lausanne Trein
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press Academic
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2018
• EAN: 9781108426497
• ISBN: 978-1-108-42649-7
• Dimensions: 158 mm x 235 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; USA, Switzerland, POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Germany, Australia, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Comparative Politics, United States of America, USA, Public health & preventive medicine, Central / national / federal government policies, Health systems & services, Public health and preventive medicine, Health systems and services, Central government policies