Sessione 3 - Health Systems in Transition: Reforms and Transformation between Policy and Politics

Coordinatrici di sessione: Franca Maino (Università di Milano), Tamara Popic (Queen Mary University di Londra)

Abstract:
Recent historical events, the global financial crisis, and the Covid-19 pandemic have prompted health systems' adaptation to new challenges and given rise to opposites of policy solutions ranging from austerity to dramatic expansions of the health budget.

Unfortunately, these developments have only added to the existing pressures, with health systems across Europe in the post-covid context being labeled as a "ticking time bomb" (The Guardian 2022) due to ageing populations still present Covid effects and workforce issues.

The panel offers the opportunity for scholars working on health and healthcare in Italy, Southern Europe, and Europe more broadly to discuss the most recent findings on developments in policy and politics of health. In addition, it aims to bring scholars working on different aspects of the health system as the more recent health developments, such as pandemics and "long Covid" have contributed to the blurring of boundaries between the different aspects of the healthcare systems - healthcare services, public health, and long-term care.

Accepted paper:

• Integration through expansive unification: The birth of the European Health Union di Anna Kyriazi (Università degli Studi di Milano), Maurizio Ferrera (Università degli Studi di Milano), Joan Miró Artigas (Institut Barcelona d'Estudis Internacionals)
• Un decennio in transizione. Dinamiche evolutive dei sistemi sanitari regionali italiani di Marco Betti (Università degli Studi di Teramo e Federsanità ANCI Toscana), Franca Maino (Università degli Studi di Milano)
• Political and Operational Influences on Attitudes towards the British NHS Over the Longue Durée di Chris Deeming (University of Strathclyde), John Curtice (University of Strathclyde)
• The Reform of the Primary Healthcare in a Context of Weak Institutionalisation. The Case of the ‘Community Hospitals’ in Italy di Nicola Giannelli (Università di Urbino), Andrea Lippi (Università degli Studi di Firenze)

Contributed paper:

• A double standard or simply European differentiated integration? On the Polish pandemic illiberalism in healthcare policy di Emilia Szyszkowska (Opole University), Emilia Szyszkowska (SGH)