Handbook of international health care systems
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Bibliographic Information
Handbook of international health care systems
(Public administration and public policy, 96)
M. Dekker, c2002
Available at 27 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
"Presents a comprehensive overview of the current state of health care and availability worldwide. Focuses on the appraoch to the provision of quality, cost-effective health care systems by ""established"" and developing member countries of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). Compares health care financing across all OECD nations."
Table of Contents
- Introduction to international health-care systems - themes and variations
- reforms in the Hungarian health-care system
- Russia's health-care system - caring in a turbulent environment
- the Canadian health-care system
- United States' health-care system
- like plugging the holes in a colander - health policy and provision in the US circa the millennium
- the health-care system in Mexico
- France's health-care system
- universal coverage and cost control - the United Kingdom National Health Service
- Sweden's health-care system
- the German health-care system
- Italy's health-care system
- the political economy of health care in Greece
- health-care system in Turkey
- the Japanese health-care system - citizen complaints and citizen possibilities
- the health-care system in Australia
- a health-care system in radical transition - the experience of New Zealand
- health-care financing - a comparative analysis.
by "Nielsen BookData"