Public Health: Beyond the Role of the State

2015 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-3 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Dawson ◽  
M. Verweij
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
The State ◽  
Role Of The State

scholarly journals What does the Kappian perspective of social costs bring to the public health debate?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliezer Magno Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Health Specialist ◽  
The Relationship

Background: this theoretical essay was produced from the reflections and seminars of the PhD Programme in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation, of the Faculty of Economics - University of Coimbra and in the author's personal experience as a public health specialist. The main objective is to deepen the discussion on the concept of social costs in Kapp (Frigato, 2006), and its relationship with public health, also reflecting on the role of the State in the implementation of Public Health Policies. Methods: we follow the guidelines of Meneghetti (2011), understanding that in the essay, the object is studied in its dialectical condition, not necessarily requiring empirical proof. It starts from the guiding questions for theoretical argumentation, seeking to understand the object through associations or analogies, without the formalism of traditional scientific technique. Results: we can see that the Kappian perspective on social costs, expands its reach to the political level, and the concept can serve as a basis for the analysis of public policies. In particular, on public health, this concept contributes to the reflection of the role of the State, in social protection and in its permanent relationship with the market. Conclusion: the Kappian perspective perceives the circularity and interdependence in the relationship between health and the costs of capitalism, favours new insights and a critical reading of the associated institutional political phenomena, power games and conflicts around the public-private relationship in health.

Welfare and the State

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pat Thane
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Economic ◽  
The State ◽  
Early Nineteenth Century ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Political Conditions ◽  
British State

The chapter examines development and change in the welfare role of the British state and the main influences upon it in the context of changing social, economic, and political conditions. It explores the Poor Law and its reform in the early nineteenth century and challenges to it later in the century; the growing role of the state in such fields as education, public health, and labour conditions through the nineteenth century; its more rapid growth through the twentieth century; and finally the challenges to state welfare from the 1980s. Throughout, the shifting but always significant relationship between the state and the voluntary sector in provision for welfare is described and discussed.

scholarly journals What does the Kappian perspective of social costs bring to the public health debate?

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eliezer Magno Araújo
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
Social Protection ◽  
The State ◽  
Social Costs ◽  
Public Health Policies ◽  
The Public ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Health Specialist ◽  
The Relationship

Beckground: this theoretical essay was produced from the reflections and seminars of the PhD Programme in Governance, Knowledge and Innovation, of the Faculty of Economics - University of Coimbra and in the author's personal experience as a public health specialist. The main objective is to deepen the discussion on the concept of social costs in Kapp (Frigato, 2006), and its relationship with public health, also reflecting on the role of the State in the implementation of Public Health Policies. Methods: we follow the guidelines of Meneghetti (2011), understanding that in the essay, the object is studied in its dialectical condition, not necessarily requiring empirical proof. It starts from the guiding questions for theoretical argumentation, seeking to understand the object through associations or analogies, without the formalism of traditional scientific technique. Results: we can see that the Kappian perspective on social costs, expands its reach to the political level, and the concept can serve as a basis for the analysis of public policies. In particular, on public health, this concept contributes to the reflection of the role of the State, in social protection and in its permanent relationship with the market. Conclusion: the Kappian perspective perceives the circularity and interdependence in the relationship between health and the costs of capitalism, favours new insights and a critical reading of the associated institutional political phenomena, power games and conflicts around the public-private relationship in health.

scholarly journals Homeward Bound? Global Mobility and the Role of the State of Nationality During the Pandemic

AJIL Unbound ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 114 ◽  
pp. 322-326
Author(s):  
Frédéric Mégret
Keyword(s):  
Public Health ◽  
International Law ◽  
Country Of Origin ◽  
The State ◽  
Host State ◽  
Transnational Mobility ◽  
Global Mobility ◽  
Role Of The State ◽  
Primary Variable

The international law of mobility has by and large been focused on the question of immigration. Its emphasis has therefore been on what I will call, for convenience's sake, the host state. It is there that some of the most intense dilemmas around the question of mobility have arisen in a context of populism, xenophobia, and racism. The state of nationality is not invisible in that context, but this has not typically been the primary variable in trying to understand and assess the normative challenges of global mobility. The COVID-19 pandemic, however, has refocused attention on distinct patterns of mobility, particularly return mobility, of nationals to their country of origin as well as limitations on leaving that country in the first place. The state of nationality has increasingly been asked to mediate demands for security and public health that are extra-territorial and that implicate its nationals in sometimes far-flung locations. I argue that the pandemic is a further opportunity to shift attention onto the state of nationality as a locus of key decisions concerning transnational mobility and thus to rebalance our sense of what goes into the global “mobility equation.”

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