Success and crisis in national health systems : a cross-national approach

Author(s)

• Field, Mark G. (Mark George)

Bibliographic Information

Success and crisis in national health systems : a cross-national approach

edited by Mark G. Field

（Contemporary issues in health, medicine, and social policy）

Routledge, 1989

• hbk.
• pbk.

Note

Includes bibliographies and index

Description and Table of Contents

Volume

hbk. ISBN 9780415012898

Description

Using a cross-national, comparative framework, distinguished scholars from different countries examine various aspects of health care and provide powerful analyses of the factors that have brought serious problems along with major achievements.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors Introduction Mark Field Part I: Pluralist Health Systems 1. The Swiss Health System: the Paradox of Ungovernability and Efficacy Philippe Lehmann, Felix Gutzwiller and Jean F. Martin 2. Issues in the Health Service in the United States Odin W. Anderson Part II: Insurance-Social Security Health Systems 3. The New Zealand Health Services Marshall W. Raffel 4. Health Care and the Japanese State William E. Steslicke 5. The Health System in Spain Jess M. de Miguel and Mauro F. Guilln 6. Yugoslavia: Health Care under Self-Managing Socialism Donna E. Parmelee Part III: National Health Service 7. A Service within a Service: the National Health Service in Scotland T. D. Hunter Part IV: Socialized Medicine 8. The Soviet Health System: A National Health System in a Socialist Society Christopher M. Davis Part V: Didactic or Suggestive Aspects of Cross-National Studies 9. New Ideas for Health Policy in France, Canada and Britain Victor G. Rodwin.

Volume

pbk. ISBN 9780415012904

Description

Using a cross-national comparative framework, this international group of distinguished writers examine the various aspects of health care, analysing the factors which have caused serious problems along with major achievements. This book should be of interest to students and practitioners in medical sociology, policy management,public health.

Table of Contents

List of Contributors Introduction Mark Field Part I: Pluralist Health Systems 1. The Swiss Health System: the Paradox of Ungovernability and Efficacy Philippe Lehmann, Felix Gutzwiller and Jean F. Martin 2. Issues in the Health Service in the United States Odin W. Anderson Part II: Insurance-Social Security Health Systems 3. The New Zealand Health Services Marshall W. Raffel 4. Health Care and the Japanese State William E. Steslicke 5. The Health System in Spain Jess M. de Miguel and Mauro F. Guilln 6. Yugoslavia: Health Care under Self-Managing Socialism Donna E. Parmelee Part III: National Health Service 7. A Service within a Service: the National Health Service in Scotland T. D. Hunter Part IV: Socialized Medicine 8. The Soviet Health System: A National Health System in a Socialist Society Christopher M. Davis Part V: Didactic or Suggestive Aspects of Cross-National Studies 9. New Ideas for Health Policy in France, Canada and Britain Victor G. Rodwin.

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Details

• NCID: BA07168259
• ISBN:
  • 0415012899
  • 0415012902
• LCCN: 88011332
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 296 p.
• Size: 22 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : RA394
  • DC19 : 362.1
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Medical care -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Medical care -- Comparative method
  • LCSH : Medicine, State -- Cross-cultural studies
  • LCSH : Medicine, State -- Comparative method
  • MESH : Cross-Cultural Comparison
  • MESH : Health Services
  • MESH : National Health Programs
  • MESH : State Medicine
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BA03417103