Health and policy in the welfare state

Education facts

Code: PH14A1

The course introduces welfare research and adopts a historical and comparative perspective based on different countries and different welfare models. It addresses how the welfare state’s institutional characteristics and programmes can affect stratification processes and health – for example by policies that may affect the social determinants of health such as impact on gender differences, redistribution of resources, and poverty risks. The course further covers neoliberal influences on public health and welfare policies, and some of its consequences, since the 1990s such as: marketisation of health and welfare systems through privatisation and de-regulation, shifts towards conditioning and activation policies, governance, individualisation of health, and responsibilisation.

Entry requirements

A degree comprising at least 180 credits, as well as English proficiency equivalent to English 6.

Education offerings

Each offering has its own dates and conditions. Closed offerings are retained as history and do not mean that a new application is open.

• Health and policy in the welfare state

  Stockholm University

  Start date: 1 October 2026

  End date: 2 November 2026

  Pace of study: 100 %