| Healthy or Sick?: Coevolution of Health Care and Public Health in a Comparative Perspective Contributor(s): Trein, Philipp (Author) |
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ISBN: 1108426492 ISBN-13: 9781108426497 Publisher: Cambridge University Press OUR PRICE: $114.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: September 2018 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science |
| Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy |
| Physical Information: 0.86" H x 6.61" W x 8.38" (1.29 lbs) 332 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Trein, Philipp: - 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, employment policy), comparative federalism and multilevel governance (including European Studies), as well as economic voting (Germany). His research have 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. |
