Handbook of international health care systems

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Handbook of international health care systems

edited by Khi V. Thai, Edward T. Wimberley, Sharon M. McManus

(Public administration and public policy, 96)

Informa Healthcare, 2010

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"First published in 2002 by Marcel Dekker ... This edition published in 2010 by Informa Healthcare" -- T.p. verso

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.

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Details

  • NCID
    BB12331254
  • ISBN
    • 9780824788292
  • Country Code
    us
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    New York
  • Pages/Volumes
    ix, 604 p.
  • Size
    24 cm
  • Parent Bibliography ID
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