Description
In Beyond Medicine, Paul V. Dutton provides a penetrating historical analysis of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than their European counterparts.
Dutton argues that Europeans are healthier than Americans because beginning in the late nineteenth century European nations began construction of health systems that focused not only on medical care but the broad social determinants of health: where and how we live, work, play, and age. European leaders also created social safety nets that became integral to national economic policy. In contrast, US leaders often viewed investments to improve the social determinants of health and safety-net programs as a competing priority to economic growth.
Beyond Medicine compares the US to three European social democracies--France, Germany, and Sweden--in order to explain how, in differing ways, each protects the health of infants and children, working-age adults, and the elderly. Unlike most comparative health system analyses, Dutton draws on history to find answers to our most nettlesome health policy questions.
Author: Paul V. Dutton
Publisher: ILR Press
Published: 04/15/2021
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.71lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d
ISBN13: 9781501754562
ISBN10: 1501754564
BISAC Categories:
- Medical | Health Care Delivery
- Medical | Public Health
- Medical | Health Policy
About the Author
Paul V. Dutton is Professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Health Sciences at Northern Arizona University. He is the author of Differential Diagnoses and Origins of the French Welfare State.