Health insurance politics in Japan : policy development, government, and the Japan Medical Association
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Health insurance politics in Japan : policy development, government, and the Japan Medical Association
(The culture and politics of health care work)
ILR Press, imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022
- : hardcover
Available at 17 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
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Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Japan is the fastest aging country, with the largest super-aged society in the world and growing larger by the day, yet its universal health care costs are relatively low. In Health Insurance Politics in Japan, Takakazu Yamagishi draws back the curtain for an international audience and investigates how Japan has been able to control health care costs through health insurance politics.
Covering the period from the Meiji Restoration to the Abe Administration, Yamagishi uses a historical institutionalist approach to examine the driving force behind the development of health insurance policies in Japan. Yamagishi pays special attention to the roles of government and medical professionals, the main actors of the policymaking and medical worlds, in this development. Health Insurance Politics in Japan pushes Japan into the spotlight of the international conversation about health care reform.
Table of Contents
Introduction: To Understand the Health Insurance Policy Development in Japan
1. Westernizing Medicine
2. Reacting to Deteriorating Health
3. Improving People's Health for War
4. Reforming Health Care with the United States
5. Achieving Universal Health Insurance
6. Consolidating Universal Health Insurance
7. Making Universal Health Insurance Survive
8. Japanese Health Care in the Globalization Era
Conclusion: For the Future of Health Insurance Politics
by "Nielsen BookData"