Article in Journal
Are Doctors the Better Health Ministers?
Adam Pilny, Felix Rösel
ifo Institut, Dresden, 2020
ifo Dresden berichtet, 2020, 27, Nr. 6, 26-27
ifo Institut, Dresden, 2020
ifo Dresden berichtet, 2020, 27, Nr. 6, 26-27
In the corona crisis, it is mainly virologists who set the pace of action. This is likely to have influenced the course of the pandemic. The reason is that when doctors gain political power, health policy changes noticeably. This is shown in a new study that examines the German state health ministers between 1955 and 2017.