Health Care Systems in Transition : An International Perspective

Francis D. Powell

ISBN 10: 0761910824 / ISBN 13: 9780761910824

Published by Sage Publications, 1998

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nach der Bestellung gedruckt Neuware - Printed after ordering - This book offers an overview of health care systems in advanced industrial nations and its relation to current challenges from the USA. Part One offers guidelines for comparing health care reforms. Parts Two to Five examine health care and attempts at health care reform in Germany, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Part Six considers the impact on reform of structural differences in health care systems, and how national reform measures might be reflected in regional and state programmes in the United States.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Health Care Systems in Transition : An International Perspective
• Publisher: Sage Publications
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0761910824
• ISBN 13: 9780761910824
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 229W x 152H x 26D millimeters 229 millimeters width by 152 millimeters height by 26 millimeters depth
• Weight: 716 grams

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Synopsis

Can the United States learn from other health care systems? This is the question Francis D. Powell and Albert F. Wessen and their colleagues address in this new volume on comparative health care systems. Health Care Systems in Transition presents a framework for examining and comparing health care reform, as well as attempts in Germany, Canada, Sweden, and Great Britain to maximize their populations′ health through efforts involving such factors as access to care, cost containment, and national payment programs.

The editors begin by offering guidelines for comparing health care reforms, exploring the issues and components of health care reform and the kinds of challenges reform will continue to face in the United States. The next four sections examine health care and attempts at health care reform in Germany, Canada, Sweden, and Great Britain. The final section considers how structural differences in health care systems may impact efforts at reform and how national reform measures in the countries studied might be reflected in regional and state programs in the United States.

Health Care Systems in Transition will prove invaluable reading for scholars, administrators, and students in health care policy, public health, health services administration and research, public administration, and political science.