Health and healthcare policy in Italy since 1861 : a comparative approach / Francesco Taroni.
2021
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Health and healthcare policy in Italy since 1861 : a comparative approach / Francesco Taroni.
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9783030887315 (electronic bk.)
3030887316 (electronic bk.)
9783030887308
3030887308
3030887316 (electronic bk.)
9783030887308
3030887308
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Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, 2021.
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English
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1 online resource (1 volume) : illustrations (black and white).
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10.1007/978-3-030-88731-5 doi
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RA507
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362.10945
Summary
Providing a historical overview of healthcare in Italy from its unification in 1861 to the present COVID-19 pandemic, this book analyses the political, social and cultural impact of Italian healthcare policy and medicine. The author examines the development of public health, hospitals, and primary care, and the building of healthcare systems across three political regimes in Italy: the liberal period (1861-1914), Fascism (1922-43), and the Italian Republic (1948 to the present day). By emphasising the embeddedness of health-related legislation in Italys political and social background, this book offers a comparative account of Italian health policy, and contrasts this with developments in neighbouring European countries, Canada and the United States. The book focuses on the Italian governments reaction to the social and political impact of several diseases: pellagra; cholera; malaria; and tuberculosis, and explores the present-day response to the current COVID-19 pandemic. A timely and comprehensive read, this book will appeal to those teaching and researching Italian history and the history of medicine and healthcare more widely. Francesco Taroni is Professor of legal and social medicine at the University of Bologna in Italy. Previously, he has held managerial positions at a national and regional level. Internationally, he is Visiting Research Scientist at the Sidney Kimmel Medical Colleges Asano-Gonnella Center for Research in Medical Education and Health Care, Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, USA, and has consulted for the World Health Organization (WHO) and the Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Francesco has published extensively on healthcare research and his most recent books include Politiche Sanitarie in Italia (Health Policies in Italy, 2011) and Il Volo del Calabrone: 40 Anni di Servizio Sanitario Nazionale (The Flight of the Bumblebee: 40 years of National Health Service, 2019).
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Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Health in the making of a Nation
Chapter 2. Health and healthcare in the liberal State
Chapter 3. The Great War and the Spanish Flu
Chapter 4. Health under the Fascist State
Chapter 5. Postwar: roads not taken
Chapter 6. The rise and fall of the mutual jungle
Chapter 7. The creation of the Servizio sanitario nazionale
Chapter 8. Reinventing the SSN?
Chapter 9. New issues at the dawn of the Twenty-first Century. Chapter 10. A Lost Decade
Chapter 11. Two Converging Crises
Chapter 12. Postscript./.
Chapter 2. Health and healthcare in the liberal State
Chapter 3. The Great War and the Spanish Flu
Chapter 4. Health under the Fascist State
Chapter 5. Postwar: roads not taken
Chapter 6. The rise and fall of the mutual jungle
Chapter 7. The creation of the Servizio sanitario nazionale
Chapter 8. Reinventing the SSN?
Chapter 9. New issues at the dawn of the Twenty-first Century. Chapter 10. A Lost Decade
Chapter 11. Two Converging Crises
Chapter 12. Postscript./.