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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.

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 avril 2021
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501754586
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	2 Mo

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Beyond Medicine

A volume in the series The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work

Edited by Suzanne Gordon and Sioban Nelson

For a list of books in the series, visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

Beyond Medicine

Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States

Paul V. Dutton

ILR Press an imprint of Cornell University Press Ithaca and London

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First published 2021 by Cornell University Press

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Names: Dutton, Paul V., author. Title: Beyond medicine : why European social democracies enjoy better health outcomes than the United States / Paul V. Dutton. Description: Ithaca [New York] : Cornell University Press, 2021. | Series: The culture and politics of health care work | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identiﬁers: LCCN 2020025549 (print) | LCCN 2020025550 (ebook) | ISBN 9781501754555 (hardcover) | ISBN 9781501754562 (paperback) | ISBN 9781501754586 (pdf) | ISBN 9781501754579 (epub) Subjects: LCSH: Health—Social aspects—United States. | Health—Social aspects—Europe, Western. | Health—Political aspects—United States. | Health—Political aspects—Europe, Western. | Medical care—United States—History. | Medical care—Europe, Western—History. | Wellbeing—United States. | Wellbeing—Europe, Western. Classiﬁcation: LCC RA418.3.U6 D87 2021 (print) | LCC RA418.3.U6 (ebook) | DDC 362.1—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020025549 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2020025550

To Allan Mitchell, teacher, mentor, friend

The idea of social democracy is now used to describe a society the economy of which is predominantly capitalist, but where the state acts to regulate the economy in the general interest, provides welfare services outside of it and attempts to alter the distribution of income and wealth in the name of social justice. —Routledge Encyclopedia of Philosophy

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Acknowledgments

Contents

Introduction: Relative Decline Is Decline All the Same

1. Infant and Child Health in the United States and France

2. Workers’ Health in the United States and Germany

3. After Work in the United States and Sweden

Conclusion: Beyond Medicine

Notes

Index

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Preface

This book owes its origins to my experience of founding and directing an interdisciplinary health policy research institute at Northern Arizona Uni versity between 2008 and 2015. The institute brought together anthro pologists, biologists, health scientists, hospital administrators, insurance executives, medical faculty, physicians, political scientists, psychologists, state legislators, public health ofﬁcials, social workers, and many others. Amazingly, I never had to recruit any of them. Once word got out that we were working across disciplinary boundaries, dozens of talented people called, wanting to be involved. Every one of them was special. Each intui tively understood that no matter how great their individual achievements, largescale solutions would require collaboration with others from across the health system—that health encompasses all dimensions of life and is therefore inescapably interdisciplinary. And that because of our incessant efforts to partition expertise into evermore specialized ﬁelds we are losing sight of the big picture that is imperative to wise policy making.