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The Political and Social Contexts of Health: Politics of Sex in Medicine by Vicente Navarro (Paperback, 2004)

This book shows how the varying political traditions in the developed world - social democratic, Christian democratic, conservative, and liberal traditions - have affected populations' health and quality of life in the western democracies. The contributors also analyse the public and social policies derived from each of these political traditions that have affected levels of social inequality (through changes in the welfare states and labour markets) and on health and quality of life. As explained in Chapter 1, this study, carried out under the sponsorship of the European Commission, has two main parts. The first is a broad study of the impact of these various political traditions on the welfare states, the labour markets, levels of social inequalities, and infant mortality and life expectancy between 1950 and 1998 for all OECD countries. The second part consists of a series of case studies on how political and social interventions have affected (at the national and regional levels) the welfare states and labour markets in United Kingdom, Italy, Germany (before and after reunification), Spain, and Sweden. The analyses clearly show that politics matter - although not always in ways one might expect.

Author
Vicente Navarro
Publication Name
The Political and Social Contexts of Health: Politics of Sex in Medicine
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Medicine, Psychology, Insurance
Publication Year
2004
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
246 Pages

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