...Stephen Jackson; Jason L. Powell Alan Walker and Gerhard Naegele, eds. The Politics of Old Age in Europe . Buckingham: Open University Press, 1999. 237 pp. $95.00 cloth; $28.95 paper. Richard Saltman, Josep Figueras, and Constantino Sakellarides, eds. Critical Challenges for Health Care...

...Scott L. Greer; Margitta Mätzke Communicable disease control might be one of the oldest and most important functions of the modern state, but it receives very little attention today. This article introduces a special issue on the Europeanization of communicable disease control politics in Europe...

...Marco Liverani; Richard Coker In the past few decades there has been increased integration of communicable disease policies in Europe. The historical roots of this process date back to the mid-nineteenth century, when national authorities realized that the cross-boundary spread of diseases cannot...

...David J. Hunter Europe faces major health challenges in addition to its well-reported economic and financial difficulties. Despite the overall improvement in population health, significant inequalities remain, with a growing gap between rich and poor. WHO Europe, covering fifty-three member states...

...Ralf Reintjes Communicable diseases do not respect national boundaries and are important challenges to health internationally. This article aims to support the improvement and integration of surveillance systems in Europe and beyond by drawing on research comparing national systems. Definitions...

... capacities in the United States and the European Union. © 2012 by Duke University Press 2012 References Baldwin Peter . 2005 . Contagion and the State in Europe, 1830 – 1930 . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press . Brandt Allan M. Gardner Martha . 2000 . “Antagonism...

...Daniel M. Fox The eight articles on the governance of communicable disease control in Europe in this issue contribute information and insight to the literature on health politics, policy, and law. Each is a carefully researched and well-argued analysis of a subject on which its authors are experts...

... . European Commission . 2014 . “ Effective, Accessible and Resilient Health Systems .” April 4 . ec.europa.eu/health/sites/health/files/systems_performance_assessment/docs/com2014_215_final_en.pdf . European Commission . 2018a . “ EU Budget for the Future .” ec.europa.eu/commission/future-europe...

... of the HiNEWS (Health Inequalities in European Welfare States) project funded by NORFACE, including the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft DFG (New Opportunities for Research Funding Agency Cooperation in Europe) Welfare State Futures program grant 462-14-110. I thank Theodore Marmor and Joe White for valuable...

...Michał Sitek This article discusses the applicability of the new institutionalism to the politics of health care reform in postcommunist Central Europe. The transition to a market economy and democracy after the fall of communism has apparently strengthened the institutional approaches...

...James A. Morone; Janice M. Goggin Health Policies in Europe: Welfare States in a Market Era James A. Morone and Janice M. Goggin Brown University Across Western Europe, social welfare...

..., Democratization, and the Development of Welfare States in Western Europe. In The Development of Welfare States in Europe and North America, ed. P. Flora and A. Heidenheimer. London: Transaction Books. Garpenby , P. 1995 . Health Care Reform in Sweden in the 1990s: Local Pluralism versus National...

... that there are multiple public/private boundaries in health care. The overall picture that emerges from our analysis is diverse, but there is evidence that health care in Europe has become somewhat more private. The growth of the public fraction in health care spending has come to an end since the 1980s, and in a few...

... do EANs operate away from the spotlight, they also are a relatively recent phenomenon: the considerable growth in EANs, as Martinsen and Schrama document, occurred after 2003. Public health care systems are, in a sense, a very concrete representation of what a “social Europe” exemplifies...

...Howard A. Palley AARP. AARP International Forum in Long-Term Care: 2003 Proceedings . Washington, DC: AARP, 2004. 40 pp. cloth. Tim Blackman, Sally Brodhurst, and Janet Convery, eds. Social Care and Social Exclusion: A Comparative Study of Older People's Care in Europe . New York: Palgrave...

... .” In Health Politics in Europe: A Handbook , edited by Immergut Ellen M. , Anderson Karen M. , Devitt Camilla , and Popic Tamara , 3 – 31 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Klein Rudolf . 1997 . “ Learning from Others: Shall the Last Be the First? ” Journal of Health...

... . The Handling of the H1N1 Pandemic: More Transparency Needed . Strasbourg : Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly, Social, Health and Family Affairs Committee . Friedman S. R. Perlis T. Des Jarlais D. C. . 2001 . “Laws Prohibiting Over-the-Counter Syringe Sales to Injection Drug Users...

...Robyn Martin; Alexandra Conseil This article provides a critical portrait of the current state of public health policies and laws governing pandemic influenza prevention and control in Europe. It examines the role of and relationship between national public health policy and national communicable...

...Timothy Stoltzfus Jost; Diane Dawson; André den Exter The Federal Trade Commission and Department of Justice 2004 report Improving Health Care: A Dose of Competition expresses a clear allegiance to competition as the organizing principle for health care. In Europe, by contrast, the key organizing...

... there are concerns that given resource constraints facing the Indian patent office, this novel feature of Indian patent laws on the books may not have an effect on Indian patent prosecution in practice. We test this by examining the prosecution outcomes of 2,803 applications filed in both India and Europe, coded...