Healthy or Sick?
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Healthy or Sick?

Coevolution of Health Care and Public Health in a Comparative Perspective

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  3. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Healthy or Sick?

Coevolution of Health Care and Public Health in a Comparative Perspective

About this book

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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Half-title
  3. Series information
  4. Title page
  5. Copyright information
  6. Dedication
  7. Table of contents
  8. List of Figures
  9. List of Tables
  10. Acknowledgments
  11. Acronyms
  12. 1 Introduction
  13. 2 Sectoral Coupling of Health Care and Public Health
  14. 3 Theoretical Priors
  15. 4 Global Context and Case Selection
  16. 5 United Kingdom: Institutional Unification and Tight Coupling of Health Care and Public Health
  17. 6 Australia: Politicized Professions and Tight Coupling of Health Care and Public Health
  18. 7 Germany: Dominance of Individual Health Care and Decoupling from Public Health
  19. 8 Switzerland: Institutional Fragmentation, Depoliticized Health Professions, and Noncoupling
  20. 9 United States: Politicized Professions and Loose Coupling of Health Care and Public Health
  21. 10 Coevolution of Policy Sectors: Health Care and Public Health in a Comparative Perspective
  22. Appendix A
  23. Appendix B
  24. Notes
  25. References
  26. Index