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Healthy or sick? : coevolution of health care and public health in a comparative perspective

Trein, Philipp, 1981- author

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\"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, 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 if 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\"--Provided by publisher.

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Subject: Social medicine. / Public Health. / Health Policy history. / Public Health history. / Internationality. / History, 19th Century. / History, 20th Century.
• ISBN: 9781108426497, 1108426492

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Call Number	Copies	Material	Location
RA418.T72 2018	1	BOOK	AUTOSTORE