Paul V. Dutton 
Beyond Medicine [EPUB ebook] 
Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States

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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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Table of Content

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

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.

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Language English ● Format EPUB ● Pages 216 ● ISBN 9781501754579 ● File size 1.9 MB ● Publisher Cornell University Press ● City Ithaca ● Country US ● Published 2021 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 7778417 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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