EU Health Law and Policy: The Expansion of EU Power in Public Health and Health Care – eBook

EU Health Law and Policy (PDF) outlines, through case studies, how the expansion of EU power is taking place via law and policy, in both public health and health care. How is law and strategy in the field of human health adopted, who are the institutional actors included, and what is the impact of these developments on fundamental rights?

Whether there is a public health requirement for the containment and response to swine flu, or a personal need to access health care across the border for a hip operation to relieve pain, the EU has a more and more powerful role in the field of human health. Health law and policy is seriously tied into fundamental rights, bioethics, and values, with important implications for individuals. However, it is also an extensive area of economic regulation, of social and state
arrangements. The evolving role of the EU in human health law and policy is contested, particularly as it has effects on the fundamental rights and values that are preserved in national health law and policy.

Reviews

“In any circumstances, this ebook would be one of the best works on European Union health policy and law and a prominent contribution to research on law and society or the European Union in general. In the situations of COVID-19, it is also one of the most important … this ebook is a fine piece of scholarship whose relevance is a favor to all of us.” — Scott L. Greer, University of Michigan, Journal of Health Politics and Law

“Based on de Ruijter’s Ph.D. thesis at the University of Amsterdam, EU Health Law and Policy: The Expansion of EU Power in Public Health and Health Care is a deeply researched ebook with an inspiring marshaling of the literature; interestingly, de Ruijter joins her doctrinal legal analysis with qualitative research data recounting the accounts of civil servants working on health policy in the EU institutional context, which makes for a good account of her findings … EU Health Law & Policy is an outstandingly crafted monograph deserving of an extensive audience.” — Edward Dove, University of Edinburgh, SCRIPTed

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