Health and policy in the welfare state
The course introduces welfare research and adopts a historical and comparative perspective based on different countries and different welfare models. It addresses how the welfare state’s institutional characteristics and programmes can affect stratification processes and health – for example by policies that may affect the social determinants of health such as impact on gender differences, redistribution of resources, and poverty risks. The course further covers neoliberal influences on public health and welfare policies, and some of its consequences, since the 1990s such as: marketisation of health and welfare systems through privatisation and de-regulation, shifts towards conditioning and activation policies, governance, individualisation of health, and responsibilisation.
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Contact
Study counsellor- Anna Nyström
- Study counsellor
- studievagledare.publichealth@su.se
- 08-16 14 25
- Visiting address
Level 3, Room A332
Sveavägen 160, Sveaplan
Stockholm
Study administratorCoordinator, master's programme- Sol Juarez
- Coordinator, master's programme
- master.publichealth@su.se
- Visiting address
Level 3, Room 341
Sveavägen 160, Sveaplan
Stockholm
Director of Studies, Basic and advanced levels- Ylva B Almquist
- Director of Studies
- studierektor.ga.publichealth@su.se
- Visiting address
Level 5, Room A 534
Sveavägen 160, Sveaplan
Stockholm
Associate Director of Studies- Sara Brolin Låftman
- Associate Director of Studies
- bitr.studierektor.publichealth@su.se
- Visiting address
Level 5, Room A 560
Sveavägen 160, Sveaplan
Stockholm
