Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure (Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era) - Hardcover

9780415202350: Health Reform: Public Success, Private Failure (Routledge Studies in Governance and Change in the Global Era)

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ISBN 10: 0415202353 ISBN 13: 9780415202350

Publisher: Routledge, 1999

Health Reform explores the challenges facing health care provision in the advanced economies. The book exposes the limitations of market-led health reform and demonstrates the indispensable role of a vibrant public authority in the renewal of modern health care systems. Issues covered include:
* cost-containment and privatisation strategies in an international perspective
* the role of business and the private sector in setting the agenda for health care reform
* the restructuring of Anglo-Saxon health systems and the shift in state/market boundaries in Canada, the USA, the UK and Australia
* the frontier of health care reform in terms of health and social cohesion
*the role of patient choice in health care reform.

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About the Author

Daniel Drache is Director of the Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies at York University and Professor of Political Economy. He is co-editor of States Against Markets: The Limits of Globalization (Routledge, 1996). Terrence Sullivan is President of the Institute for Work and Health, Toronto, and is Adjunct Professor in Sociology at York University.

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