Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- List of Boxes -- Notes on the Authors -- Preface -- 1 European National Public Healthcare Systems Compared -- Public Health Data Sources and their Limitations -- Public Health in Socio-Demographic Contexts -- The Combined Impact of Demographic Characteristics and Public Health Policy Settings -- 2 Comparing the Impacts of Covid-19 Across EU Member States -- Issues of Covid-19 Data Reliability and Comparability -- Tracking Covid-19 Infections and Deaths
Setting Covid-19 Deaths in Relation to Socio-Demographic and Public Health Indicators -- 3 Tracking and Comparing Government Responses to Covid-19 -- Introducing Lockdown -- National Approaches to Lockdown -- Preparing for Lockdown Exit -- Comparing the Economic and Social Outcomes of Lockdown -- 4 The Impact of Covid-19 in Policy Contexts -- Policy Environments and the Policymaking Process -- Administrative Performance During the Pandemic -- Public Attitudes Towards Government Interventions -- Comparing the Performance of Governments and their Administrations
5 Contextualising the Impact of the Covid-19 Pandemic Within the European Union -- Contextualising Covid-19 Cases and Deaths -- Demographic Characteristics and Covid-19 -- Epidemiological Risk Factors and Covid-19 -- Policy Settings and Covid-19 -- Variable Clustering During the Pandemic -- The Value of Contextualising Variables -- Postface -- Policy Learning from Contextualised European Comparisons -- Covid-19 and EU Social Union -- References -- Index
