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The European Journal of Public Health Advance Access originally published online on June 4, 2008
The European Journal of Public Health 2008 18(4):354-355; doi:10.1093/eurpub/ckn040
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© The Author 2008. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the European Public Health Association. All rights reserved.

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Politics and health: a neglected area of research

Vincent Navarro1,2

1Pompeu Fabra University, Barcelona, Spain and 2The Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Correspondence: e-mail: vnavarro@jhsph.edu

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   A scarcity of studies
 
One of the more surprising features of the literature on public health and on health policy research in Europe and North America is the scarcity of references on the impact of political variables on health policy and on health outcomes. One can find in this literature a growing number of articles that focus on the social and cultural determinants of health, but very few indeed on the political determinants of health. This is remarkable, because one would have thought that in societies claiming to be democratic, public-health scholars and public-health analysts would study how the various instruments (such as political parties) through which people express their wants and needs shape public policies that affect the health of populations. There have been studies on the impact of health policy on health, but very few on the impact of politics on health policy and/or on health outcomes. This silence on the relationship . . . [Full Text of this Article]


   The need to undertake studies on politics and health
 

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