University of Liverpool Revives "Politics of Health" Group
September 29, 2003
Public-health experts at the University of Liverpool have published a study calling for a renewed agenda of interdisciplinary research on public health, focusing on health systems as outcomes from political processes.
Most significantly, the authors -- an economist, a nurse, and a physician -- recommend that scholars and analysts adopt perspectives on health and health care which recover these subjects' political content.
Viewing health as a central part of welfare, the report pays close attention to the distribution of access to health care. From this idea, Bambra, Fox, and Scott-Samuel observe that health and health care have immediate implications not only in economics, but development more generally, as well as the study of politics.
The paper concludes with plans for a program of research and advocacy on health issues, both locally and globally.
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Keywords: public health, health, politics, research, group