The Health Law and Policy Network has published an open-access special issue of papers entitled Health Care and the Fate of Social Europe with the Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. This collection of articles was originally workshopped at our event in Copenhagen. In this special issue, our network of EU health policy scholars explore key issues and intersections between EU health policy, political institutions and actor, and social Europe. Articles in this special issue include:

Introduction: Health Care and the Fate of Social Europe
By Katherine Fierlbeck

What Is EU Public Health and Why? Explaining the Scope and Organization of Public Health in the European Union
By Scott L. Greer and Holly Jarman

Abstract: Public health is notoriously difficult to define, and that is the case for public health in the European Union as much as other political systems. In this article, the authors try to identify the actual scope and meaning of public health as it is institutionalized in the EU political system. Using a mixture of historical policy and legal analysis, the authors show how the evolution of the institutional space called public health in the EU has been shaped by the EU's distinctive constitutional nature,...Read more