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

Informationen zum Autor Philipp Trein is a postdoctoral researcher in political science at the Institute of Political, Historical, and International Studies (IEPHI) of the Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, and a visiting scholar at the Institute of European studies (IES) at the University of California, Berkeley. His research interests cover comparative public policy (coordination and integration of policies, health policy, and employment policy), comparative federalism and multilevel governance (including European studies), as well as economic voting (Germany). His research has been published or is forthcoming in the Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science, European Journal of Political Research, German Politics, the Journal of Public Policy, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis: Research and Practice, Public Administration, Publius: The Journal of Federalism, and Regional and Federal Studies. Klappentext This book analyses how policies to prevent diseases are related to policies aiming to cure illnesses 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 preventive health policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. Sectoral coupling of health care and public health; 3. Theoretical priors; 4. Global context and case selection; 5. UK: institutional unification and tight coupling of health care and public health; 6. Australia: politicized professions and tight coupling of health care and public health; 7. Germany: dominance of individual health care and de-coupling from public health; 8. Switzerland: Institutional fragmentation, depoliticized professions, and non-coupling; 9. US: politicized professions and loose coupling of health care and public health; 10. Coevolution of policy sectors. Health care and public health in a comparative perspective.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Philipp Trein, Philipp (Universite De Lausanne Trein
• Editore: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 31.12.2020
• EAN: 9781108796149
• ISBN: 978-1-108-79614-9
• Pagine: 332
• Serie: Cambridge Studies in Comparati; Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; 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