Much has been written about policy efforts to achieve Health in All Policies: an ambitious attempt to improve population health and reduce health inequalities by ensuring multiple policy areas are more attuned to their health impacts. However, most accounts focus on technical challenges, such as implementing impact assessments. In contrast, and focusing on the European Union, this book argues that Health in All Policies is essentially a political project shaped by institutional power, competing ideas, and discourses. We can only really understand the failure to realise its ambition through political analysis.
Chapter 1: Introduction.
Chapter 2: What is 'Health in All
Policies'?.- Chapter 3: Where is health in EU governance?.
Chapter 4: How
can we research Health in All Policies in the EU?.
Chapter 5: Setting the
scene: Are EU institutions HiAP-friendly?.
Chapter 6: Going deeper: Is it
about more than institutions?.
Chapter 7: Shifting focus: Why did Health in
All Policies still reach the EU?.- Chapter 8: Conclusion.
Charlotte Godziewski is a Lecturer (Assistant Professor) in International Politics at City, University of London. Her research explores the politics of health, with a current empirical focus on the EU. Her doctoral thesis was awarded the 2021 Best PhD Thesis Prize by the University Association for Contemporary European Studies (UACES). Charlotte is a coordinator of EUHealthGov, the UACES-funded research network on EU Health Governance.
