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8 - Switzerland: Institutional Fragmentation, Depoliticized Health Professions, and Noncoupling

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 July 2018

Philipp Trein
Affiliation:
Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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The Swiss case is an important case study for this book’s argument because it combines the absence of professionalism and the presence of corporatist interest intermediation with a rather fragmented and decentralized government and competences in policymaking. Therefore, based on the theoretical predictions, we expect to find de-coupling of health care and public health. The analysis of the Swiss case will proceed similarly to the studies of the other countries. We will start by examining the distinctiveness and responsiveness of both policy sectors in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Then the book will focus on the interwar and Second World War period. After that, this chapter will examine the relationship of both sectors in the post-World War two era. The last section will analyze the coupling of both sectors in what has been labelled the “new public health” era.
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Healthy or Sick?
Coevolution of Health Care and Public Health in a Comparative Perspective
, pp. 171 - 199
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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