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Healthy or Sick?

Healthy or Sick?

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Series: Cambridge Studies in Comparative Public Policy

General Political Science

ISBN10: 1108796141
ISBN13: 9781108796149
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Dec 19 2019
Pages: 334
Weight: 0.99
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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