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Join UD's European Studies program on Wednesday, April 7 at 5:00 p.m. for Beyond Medicine: Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes than the United States - a free and open-to-the-public Zoom event. This lecture is part of the Spring Fulbright Lecture Series.
Guest speaker Paul V. Dutton, professor of History and Adjunct Professor of Health Sciences at Northern Arizona University, will discuss his latest book Beyond Medicine: Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes than the United States. Professor Dutton will provide a penetrating historical analysis
of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than
their European counterparts. During this talk, he will discuss that Europeans are healthier than
Americans because beginning in the late nineteenth century European nations
began construction of health systems that focused not only on medical care
but the broad social determinants of health: where and how we live, work, play,
and age. European leaders also created social safety nets that became integral
to national economic policy. In contrast, US leaders often viewed investments to
improve the social determinants of health and safety-net programs as a competing
priority to economic growth. Beyond Medicine compares the US to three European
social democracies—France, Germany, and Sweden—in order to explain how, in
differing ways, each protects the health of infants and children, working-age adults,
and the elderly. Unlike most comparative health system analyses, Dutton draws on
history to find answers to our most nettlesome health policy questions.
The talk can be accessed by copying and pasting the following Zoom link into your browser -- udel.zoom.us/j/92264128015
For more information click here or contact Daniel Kinderman at kindermd@udel.edu.
