Contains the proceedings of a conference held in May, 1986 at Pennsylvania State University. The papers presented have been written by some of the most distinguished health leaders in Australia, New Zealand, and the United States, and from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD). They focus on the formulation of health policy in each of the three countries, the problems and dilemmas in the implementation of policy, and the effect of the policy decisions implemented, particularly on the services provided by hospitals, and on two vulnerable groups in each of the countries--the elderly and the native populations. Discusses the influence on health policy of economic and political pressures--in particular the influences of government, business groups, the health professions, organized labor, and others.
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