Comparative Health Policy

 by Robert Blank & Viola Burau  Pb 272pages

This major new comparative text, which is aimed at both students and practitioners, analyzes key issues in health policy to assess the extent to which policy problems and responses in different countries have common causes or spring from specific national circumstances. It analyzes what lessons can be learned about public/private mixes, provision and funding frameworks, and acute and preventive services in a wide range of health systems - systematically comparing Australia, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, the UK and the US, but ranging more widely as appropriate.

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Public Health Law and Regulation

by Christopher Reynolds Pb 300pages

Critically evaluating the interaction between law and public health, this book explains the legal and regulatory regimes established to achieve public health objectives, providing detailed analysis in the areas of sanitation, food, drugs and communicable disease. It also explains and analyses key
approaches and issues, such as: a coherent “risk based” approach to public health law; the interface between laws protecting the environment and laws protecting human health; the role of regulation in obtaining compliance; the application of a “public health approach” to legislation; responses to emerging public health threats, particularly non-communicable diseases caused by 21st-century lifestyles. 

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