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Health Care Systems in Transition
An International Perspective
Edited by:
- Francis D. Powell - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
- Albert F. Wessen - Economics, Brown University
Other Titles in:
Health Care Management
Health Care Management
January 1999 | 440 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc
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.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION
Albert F Wessen
The Comparative Study of Health Care Reform
David Mechanic
Lessons from Abroad
Mark Field
Comparative Health Systems and the Convergence Hypothesis
PART TWO: THE GERMAN EXPERIENCE
Christa Altenstetter
From Solidarity to Market Competition
Bradford Kirkman-Liff
Health Care Cost Containment in Germany
Bradley Scharf
Germany Unity and Health Care Reform
PART THREE: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE
Catherine Charles and Robin Badgley
Canadian National Health Insurance
Catherine Fooks
Will Power, Cost Control and Health Reform in Canada, 1987-1992
Francois Béland
Preventive and Primary Care Access Systems
PART FOUR: THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE
Ellen Immergut
Historical and Institutional Foundations of the Swedish Health Care System
Richard Saltman
Evolving Roles of the National and Regional Governments in the Swedish Health Care System
Casten von Otter
Cost Control in the Swedish Health Sector
PART FIVE: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE
Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein
Britain's Health Care Experiment
John Appleby
The Reforms of the British National Health Service
Donald W Light
Policy Lessons from the British Health Care System
PART SIX: HEALTH CARE REFORM: TOWARD A SYNTHESIS
Albert F Wessen
Structural Differences and Health Care Reform
Francis D Powell
Patterns of Health Care System Change