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1 online resource (xlii, 1005 pages) : illustrations (some color)
"Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook is a major new reference work, which provides historical background and up-to-date information and analysis on health politics and health systems throughout Europe. In particular, it captures developments that have taken place since the end of the Cold War, a turning point for many European health systems, with most post-communist transition countries privatizing their state-run health systems, and many Western European health systems experimenting with new public management and other market-oriented health reforms. Following three introductory, stage-setting chapters, the handbook offers country cases divided into seven regional sections, each of which begins with a short regional outlook chapter that highlights the region's common characteristics and divergent paths taken by the separate countries, including comparative data on health system financing, healthcare access, and the political salience of health. Each regional section contains at least one detailed main case, followed by shorter treatments of the other countries in the region. Country chapters feature a historical overview focusing on the country's progression through a series of political regimes and the consequences of this history for the health system; an overview of the institutions and functioning of the contemporary health system; and a political narrative tracing the politics of health policy since 1989. This political narrative, the core of each country case, examines key health reforms in order to understand the political motivations and dynamics behind them and their impact on public opinion and political legitimacy. The handbook's systematic structure makes it useful for country-specific, cross-national, and topical research and analysis."--
Part I Introduction -- Chapter 1. Health Politics Today -- Chapter 2. Health Outcomes and Health Inequalities -- Chapter 3. Public Opinion on Healthcare -- Part II. Ireland and the UK -- Chapter 4 Regional Outlook Ireland and the UK / Jane Gingrich and Scott L. Greer -- Chapter 5 Ireland Camilla Devitt -- Chapter 6 The United Kingdom England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland / Jane Gingrich and Scott L. Greer -- Part III The Nordic Countries -- Chapter 7 Regional Outlook The Nordic Countries / Ellen M. Immergut and Maria Oskarson -- Chapter 8 Sweden / Paula Blomqvist and Ulrika Winblad -- Chapter 9 Denmark / Karsten Vrangbæk -- Chapter 10 Finland / Liina-Kaisa Tynkkynen, Meri Koivusalo, and Ilmo Keskimäki -- Chapter 11 Norway / Mi Ah Schoyen -- Part IV Southern Europe -- Chapter 12 Regional Outlook Southern Europe / Elisa Chuliá and Karen M. Anderson -- Chapter 13 Portugal / Maria Asensio -- Chapter 14 Italy / Franca Maino and Federico Razetti -- Chapter 15 Spain / Elisa Chuliá -- Chapter 16 Greece / Ilias Kyriopoulos and Elias Mossialos -- Chapter 17 Cyprus Mamas / Theodorou and Kostas Athanasakis -- Part V The Baltic Countries -- Chapter 18 Regional Outlook The Baltic CountriesMare Ainsaar and Ave Roots -- Chapter 19 Estonia Mare Ainsaar, Ave Roots, and Jüri Kõre -- Chapter 20 Latvia Edgars Eihmanis -- Chapter 21 Lithuania Liubovė Murauskienė -- Part VI Continental Europe -- Chapter 22 Regional Outlook Continental Europe / Ellen M. Immergut -- Chapter 23 Germany / Ellen M. Immergut and Claus Wendt -- Chapter 24 The Netherlands / Karen M. Anderson and Ruud Van Druenen -- Chapter 25 France / Matthias Brunn and Patrick Hassenteufel -- Chapter 26 Belgium / Julia Lynch and Christiaan Vermorken -- Chapter 27 Luxembourg / Anja Leist -- Chapter 28 Austria / Carina Diesenreiter and Claus Wendt -- Chapter 29 Switzerland / Christian Rüefli -- Part VII Central Eastern Europe -- Chapter 30 Regional Outlook Central Eastern Europe / Tamara Popic -- Chapter 31 The Czech Republic / Tamara Popic -- Chapter 32 Hungary / Mária Éva Földes -- Chapter 33 Poland / Tamara Popic -- Chapter 34 Slovakia / Tamara Popic -- Chapter 35 Slovenia / Tamara Popic -- Part VIII Southern Eastern Europe -- Chapter 36 Regional Outlook Southern Eastern Europe / Tamara Popic and Guergana Stolarov-Demuth -- Chapter 37 Bulgaria / Guergana Stolarov-Demuth -- Chapter 38 Albania / Mirza Balaj -- Chapter 39 Romania / Diana Burlacu and Alexandru Daniel Moise -- Chapter 40 Former Yugoslavia / Tamara Popic and Natalija Perišić -- Chapter 41 Croatia / Tamara Popic -- Chapter 42 Serbia / Tamara Popic -- Chapter 43 Montenegro / Natalija Perišić -- Chapter 44 North Macedonia / Simonida Kacarska and Neda Milevska Kostova -- Chapter 45 Bosnia And Herzegovina / Jasmin Hasić -- Chapter 46 Kosovo / Arta Uka -- Index.
edited by Ellen M. Immergut, Karen M. Anderson, Camilla Devitt, and Tamara Popic.
Includes bibliographical references and index.