Health constitutes a core element of welfare states and a vital nerve in the trust relation between citizen and their governments. Focusing on the health sector, this book analyzes the closely interwoven relationship between the European Union and Member States.The authors explore the dynamic and multi-fold process of de-nationalizing health policies and illustrate how European policies develop in a sector that still appears to be under exclusively national competence. They describe the multiple forms and ways the Europeanization process takes, driven by market integration, public health crises and politics of consumer protection. The authors also provide a detailed analysis of key topics: the pharmaceutical sector, market regulation of medical goods and devices, food safety, the blood provision and plasma industry, European politics on bioethics, and risk reduction in the field of drug abuse.Providing a comprehensive and informed assessment of the Europeanization process in the field of health policies, this book will be of interest to students and scholars of health, European integration and policy-making.
Author(s): Monika Steffen
Edition: 1
Year: 2005
Language: English
Pages: 224
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Tables......Page 10
Contributors......Page 11
Series editor’s foreword......Page 14
Preface......Page 16
Abbreviations......Page 18
Introduction......Page 22
1 European integration and health policy......Page 39
2 The Europeanization of regulatory policy in the EU pharmaceutical sector......Page 70
3 Bridging European and member state implementation......Page 102
4 European food safety policies......Page 134
5 The emergence of EU governance in public health......Page 155
6 Towards a European bioethics policy?......Page 173
7 Europeanization of drug policies......Page 195
Conclusion......Page 209
Index......Page 222
