Behavioural Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Policy-making in public health is highly complex, which is one reason why the behavioural turn is now playing a significant role in this field. Against this backdrop, this book aims to develop a theoretical understanding of how policymakers take up public
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BEHAVIOURAL POLICIES FOR HEALTH PROMOTION AND DISEASE PREVENTION Edited by
Benjamin Ewert and Kathrin Loer
Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research Series Editors Patrick Fafard University of Ottawa Ottawa, ON, Canada Evelyne de Leeuw University of New South Wales Australia Liverpool, NSW, Australia
Public health has increasingly cast the net wider. The field has moved on from a hygiene perspective and infectious and occupational disease base (where it was born in the 19th century) to a concern for unhealthy lifestyles post-WWII, and more recently to the uneven distribution of health and its (re)sources. It is of course interesting that these ‘paradigms’ in many places around the world live right next to each other. Hygiene, lifestyles, and health equity form the complex (indeed, wicked) policy agendas for health and social/sustainable development. All of these, it is now recognized, are part of the ‘social determinants of health’. The broad new public health agenda, with its multitude of competing issues, professions, and perspectives requires a much more sophisticated understanding of government and the policy process. In effect, there is a growing recognition of the extent to which the public health community writ large needs to better understand government and move beyond what has traditionally been a certain naiveté about politics and the process of policy making. Public health scholars and practitioners have embraced this need to understand, and influence, how governments at all levels make policy choices and decisions. Political scientists and international relations scholars and practitioners are engaging in the growing public health agenda as it forms an interesting expanse of glocal policy development and implementation. Broader, more detailed, and more profound scholarship is required at the interface between health and political science. This series will thus be a powerful tool to build bridges between political science, international relations and public health. It will showcase the potential of rigorous political and international relations science for better understanding public health issues. It will also support the public health professional with a new theoretical and methodological toolbox. The series will include monographs (both conventional and shorter Pivots) and collections that appeal to three audiences: scholars of public health, public health practitioners, and members of the political science community with an interest in public health policy and politics. More information about this series at http://www.palgrave.com/gp/series/15414
Benjamin Ewert • Kathrin Loer Editors
Behavioural Policies for Health Promotion and Disease Prevention
Editors Benjamin Ewert FernUniversität in Hagen Hagen, Germany
Kathrin Loer FernUniversität in Hagen Hagen, Germany
Palgrave Studies in Public Health Policy Research ISBN 978-3-319-98315-8 ISBN 978-3-319-98316-5 (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-98316-5 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018962495 © The Editor(s) (if appli
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