Health Governance in Europe

Issues, challenges and theories

Monika Steffen - Collection Routledge/ECPR Stuides in European Political Science

204 pages, parution le 25/04/2005

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Résumé

Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyses the closely interwoven relationship between the European Union and Member States.

The authors explore the dynamic and multi-fold process of de-nationalizing health policies and illustrate how European policies develop in a sector that still appears to be under exclusively national competence. They describe the multiple forms and ways the Europeanization process takes, driven by market integration, public health crises and politics of consumer protection. The authors also provide a detailed analysis of key topics: the pharmaceutical sector, market regulation of medical goods and devices, food safety, the blood provision and plasma industry, European politics on bioethics, and risk reduction in the field of drug abuse.

Providing a comprehensive and informed assessment of the Europeanization process in the field of health policies, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of health, European integration and policy-making.

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List of tables
List of contributors
Series editor's foreword
Preface
List of abbreviations
Introduction: The Europeanization of Health Policies
European Integration and Health Policy: A Peculiar Relationship
The Europeanization of Regulatory Policy in the EU Pharmaceutical Sector
Bridging European and Member State Implementation: The Case of Medical Goods, In Vitro +Diagnostics and Equipment
European Food Safety Policies: Between a Single Market and Political Crisis
The Emergence of EU Governance in Public Health: the Case of Blood Policy and Regulation
Towards a European Bioethics Policy? Institutional Structuring and Political Responses
Europeanization of Drug Policies: From Objective Convergence to Mutual Agreement
Conclusion: The New Politics of European Health Policy: Moving Beyond the Nation State
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	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Routledge
Auteur(s)	Monika Steffen
Collection	Routledge/ECPR Stuides in European Political Science
Parution	25/04/2005
Nb. de pages	204
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	465g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780415364522
ISBN13	978-0-415-36452-2