Health Targets In Europe
Polity, Progress and Promise
1st Edition
Published on 21. March 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
240 pages
978-0-7279-1642-6 (ISBN)
Description
In 1997 the World Health Organisation introduced the concept of "health targets" - a framework for government policies designed to enhance the health of citizens. Health targets have since developed as major instruments of public policy in Europe.
The book focuses on improving health throughout Europe and discusses the strategies for doing this at all levels from small initiatives to nationwide programmes.
Written by experts in the field the chapters include overviews of the history of health trageting in Europe, the philosophical and moral implications of health targeting, range of values and beliefs that underpin it and the visions for the future of health governance in Europe.
The book focuses on improving health throughout Europe and discusses the strategies for doing this at all levels from small initiatives to nationwide programmes.
Written by experts in the field the chapters include overviews of the history of health trageting in Europe, the philosophical and moral implications of health targeting, range of values and beliefs that underpin it and the visions for the future of health governance in Europe.
More details
Language
English
Place of publication
United States
Publishing group
John Wiley & Sons Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 211 mm
Width: 137 mm
Thickness: 15 mm
Weight
318 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7279-1642-6 (9780727916426)
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Persons
Marshall Marinker is the editor of Health Targets In Europe: Polity, Progress and Promise, published by Wiley. Clifford Martin McKee is Professor of European Public Health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Content
Contributions. Acknowledgements.
1. Evidence and Imagination. (Marshall Marinker).
2. Historical Perspectives on European Health and Policy. (Loes can Herten and Louise J. Gunning-Schepers.
3 For and Against Health Targets. (James McCormick and Naomi J. Fulop).
4 Sweden (Claes Ortendahl).
5 Lithuania (Vilius Grabasukas).
6 Spain (Carlos Alvarez-Dardet).
7 Germany (Hans Stein).
8 North Rhine-Westphalia (Birgit Weihrauch).
9 Finland (Seppo V. Koskinen and Tapani A. Melkas).
10 Italy (George France).
11 England (David J. Hunter).
12 A European Review (Morton Warner).
13 Values, Beliefs and Implication (Martin McKee).
Perspectives on Health Governance in the 21st Century. (Ilona Kickbusch).
Index.
1. Evidence and Imagination. (Marshall Marinker).
2. Historical Perspectives on European Health and Policy. (Loes can Herten and Louise J. Gunning-Schepers.
3 For and Against Health Targets. (James McCormick and Naomi J. Fulop).
4 Sweden (Claes Ortendahl).
5 Lithuania (Vilius Grabasukas).
6 Spain (Carlos Alvarez-Dardet).
7 Germany (Hans Stein).
8 North Rhine-Westphalia (Birgit Weihrauch).
9 Finland (Seppo V. Koskinen and Tapani A. Melkas).
10 Italy (George France).
11 England (David J. Hunter).
12 A European Review (Morton Warner).
13 Values, Beliefs and Implication (Martin McKee).
Perspectives on Health Governance in the 21st Century. (Ilona Kickbusch).
Index.