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

by Anniek de Ruijter

Overview

Whether there is a public health need for the containment and response to swine flu, or an individual need to access health care across the border for a hip operation to alleviate pain, the EU has an increasingly powerful role in the field of human health. Health law and policy is deeply tied into fundamental rights, bioethics and values, with important implications for individuals. However, it is also an expansive area of economic regulation, of social and state arrangements. The growing role of the EU in human health law and policy is contested, particularly as it has implications for the fundamental rights and values that are enshrined in national health law and policy.

This book outlines, through case studies, how the expansion of EU power is taking place through law and policy, in both public health and health care. How is law and policy in the field of human health adopted, who are the institutional actors involved, and what is the impact of these developments for fundamental rights?

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198788096
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	04/07/2019
Series:	Oxford Studies in European Law
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	9.50(w) x 6.40(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Anniek de Ruijter, University of Amsterdam

Anniek de Ruijter is Assistant Professor European Law, at the University of Amsterdam. Her research interests lie at the intersection of European Union law and health law and policy. In this respect she focuses on constitutional questions regarding the EU role in human health and risk regulation.

Table of Contents

1. The Silent Revolution of EU Health Law and Policy2. European Union Rights & Values in Human Health3. EU 'Public Health' and 'Health Care' Law and Policy4. Instititutional Build-up of EU Health Actors5. EU Public Health: Countermeasures to Swine Flu67. EU Health Care: Access to Medical CareThe EU Constitutional Constraints on the Intrinsic Relationship of Values, Rights and Human Health7. The Expansion of EU Power: Rights and Value Implications

Editorial Reviews

"Based on de Ruijter's PhD thesis at the University of Amsterdam, EU Health Law & Policy is a deeply researched book with an impressive marshalling of the literature; interestingly, de Ruijter couples her doctrinal legal analysis with qualitative research data relating the accounts of civil servants working on healthpolicy in the EU institutional context, which makes for a richer account of her findings ... EU Health Law & Policy is an excellently crafted monograph deserving of a wide-ranging audience." — Edward S. Dove, University of Edinburgh, SCRIPTed

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

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