Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems

Edited by Joan Costa-Font, Alberto Batinti and Gilberto Turati ()

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Abstract: This ground breaking Handbook brings together a number of chapters into one comprehensive book on the timely subject matter of the political economy of health and health care. The book contains up-to-date discussion on the state of the art of the key questions of the subject matter, and it provides a unique understanding of health policy making by drawing on an interdisciplinary approach to political economy.

Keywords: Economics and Finance; Politics and Public Policy Sociology and Social Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
ISBN: 9781800885059
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 An introduction to the Handbook on the Political Economy of Health Systems , pp 2-10

Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati

Ch 2 Health and healthcare as a human right , pp 12-26

Hiroaki Matsuura

Ch 3 Do democratic regimes exhibit 'better' health outcomes? , pp 27-41

Alberto Batinti and Joan Costa-Font

Ch 4 Soviet communism and later-life health and health care , pp 42-56

Joan Costa-Font and Anna Nicińska

Ch 5 Federalism and tax-financed healthcare: economic advantages, dilemmas, and solutions , pp 57-69

Roger Congleton

Ch 6 The coordination in European Union healthcare after Covid-19 , pp 70-84

Marco Buso, Massimo Bordignon, Rosella Levaggi and Gilberto Turati

Ch 7 Efficiency and equity effects of healthcare decentralization: evidence from Italy , pp 85-111

Caterina Ferrario, Rosella Levaggi and Massimiliano Piacenza

Ch 8 Political economy of health care insurance expansion in Mexico , pp 112-129

David G. Lugo-Palacios and Alejandro Sanders Villa

Ch 9 Weird health care for WEIRD societies? , pp 130-145

Hartmut Kliemt

Ch 10 Medical composition of cabinets and the health care system , pp 147-156

Joan Costa-Font, Nicolas Marchi and Debra Winberg

Ch 11 Women politicians and public health , pp 157-176

Sonia Bhalotra and Mariana Lopes da Fonseca

Ch 12 Community and civic participation effects on health and well-being , pp 177-199

Luke Munford and Daniel Gray

Ch 13 Ideology and health spending , pp 200-212

Bernd Theilen

Ch 14 Lobbying, health, and healthcare , pp 213-235

Nathaniel Z. Counts and Vinu Ilakkuvan

Ch 15 Healthcare corruption , pp 236-246

Martin McKee, Eleanor Hutchinson and Dina Balabanova

Ch 16 Provider power and healthcare systems , pp 247-269

Mason Barnard, Irini Papanicolas and Peter Smith

Ch 17 Health effects of trade policy and corporate interest groups , pp 270-291

Pepita Barlow

Ch 18 Institutional quality and health outcomes , pp 292-317

Giacomo De Luca, Domenico Lisi, Marco Martorana and Luigi Siciliani

Ch 19 Towards a general political economy of private supplementary health insurance , pp 319-338

Claudio Lucarelli and Mark Pauly

Ch 20 Political economy of public financing of health in low- and middle-income countries , pp 339-369

Sumit Mazumdar and Rodrigo Moreno-Serra

Ch 21 Political economy of health system reform: evidence from Spain , pp 370-379

Guillem López-Casasnovas

Ch 22 The pharmaceutical patent system and access to medicines , pp 380-395

Valbona Muzaka

Ch 23 Covid-19 and the interest group approach to government , pp 397-411

Peter Leeson and Henry Thompson

Ch 24 Political preferences and nudging for healthcare: evidence from Covid certificates , pp 412-429

Mario Cesare Nurchis, Luca Salmasi and Gilberto Turati

Ch 25 Multilevel governance in the first wave of Covid-19 , pp 430-445

Marta Angelici, Paolo Berta, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati

Ch 26 The political economy of health systems: research space, goals and lessons , pp 447-453

Alberto Batinti, Joan Costa-Font and Gilberto Turati

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