Public Policy Challenges in Rethinking Public Health:Comparative Perspectives

Edited by Katherine A Fierlbeck

in World Scientific Books from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: This volume challenges current thinking on post-pandemic public health reform, which assumes that public health systems will naturally be strengthened in light of the shortcomings exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Instead, this volume asks why public health is such an intractable and difficult area for effective public policy initiatives and suggests two kinds of answers. The first is 'because of the very nature of public health', which is difficult to clearly define and conceptualize. The second answer is 'because of the specific contextual features of each discrete healthcare system within which public health is situated.'

Keywords: Public Health; Covid-19; Pandemic; Health Care; Public Policy; Comparative Health Policy; Comparative Public Policy; Health Reform; Policy Reform; Sweden; Canada; Australia; France; The United Kingdom; The European Union; Croatia and Slovenia; The Russian Federation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I15 I18 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
ISBN: 9789811296291
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Introduction: Themes and Choices , pp 1-23

Katherine Fierlbeck and Peter Berman

Ch 2 What is Public Health? Problems of Definition and Conceptualization , pp 25-39

Scott L. Greer and Margitta Mätzke

Ch 3 Sweden , pp 41-86

Birger C Forsberg, Miriam Mosesson, My Fridell and Göran Tomson

Ch 4 Canada , pp 87-114

Peter Berman and Candice Ruck

Ch 5 Australia , pp 115-144

Evelyne de Leeuw, Glen Ramos and Patrick Harris

Ch 6 France , pp 145-168

Thibaud Deruelle

Ch 7 The United Kingdom , pp 169-202

Ollie Bartlett

Ch 8 The European Union , pp 203-222

Scott L. Greer

Ch 9 Croatia and Slovenia , pp 223-258

Tomislav Sokol

Ch 10 The Russian Federation , pp 259-281

Pavitra Paul

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