xiv, 233 pp. ".a comprehensive overview of 8 different national health care systems and focuses in particular on the different approaches to maintain efficiency and to contain overall healthcare costs." Bright clean copy.

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Title: Cost Containment and Efficiency in National Health Systems: A Global Comparison
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Publication Date: 2009
Language: English
ISBN 10: 3527321101
ISBN 13: 9783527321100
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good

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Written by a local health economics expert, each of the eight chapters in this timely handbook and ready reference describes the national healthcare system of a different industrialized country. In each case, the 4-5 specific policies with the highest impact on that respective country over the past 20-30 years are identified. In addition, the economic characteristics of each policy are described and, where possible, its success evaluated, discussing the current policy agenda. A final chapter summarizes and synthesizes the major points of the analysis.
While the main focus is on economics, this guide is written in non-technical language for an audience of health policy decision makers or students of health policy, making it an invaluable contribution to the current debate surrounding the control of rising healthcare-related costs in the developed world.

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John Rapoport
Professor of Economics
Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, Ma
USA
rapoport@mtholyoke.edu

Philip Jacobs
Institute of Health Economics
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
pjacobs@ihe.ca

Egon Jonsson
Institute of Health Economics
Edmonton, Alberta
Canada
ejonsson@ihe.ca

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