Health care reform around the world / edited by Andrew C. Twaddle.

Contributor(s):

Twaddle, Andrew C, 1938-

Material type: Text

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

0313013039
9780313013034
9780865692886
0865692882

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Health care reform around the world.DDC classification:

362.1 22

LOC classification:

RA394 .H4145 2002eb

NLM classification:

WA 525
2002 K-371

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Contents:

International comparison of health care reform systems / Andrew C. Twaddle -- Health system reforms: The United Kingdom's experience / David J. Hunter -- Ideology and interests: Explaining Swedish medical care reform, 1991-1994: An overview / Andrew C. Twaddle -- The changing faces of health care in Canada / Christel A. Woodward and Catherine A. Charles -- The United States: Live free and die? / Albert F. Wessen -- Introducing compulsory health insurance in Central Europe: Redirecting a wheel? / Stipe Oreskovic -- The reform that, alas, succeeded: The case of Serbia / Vuk Stambolovic -- The inelasticity of institutional patterns: An impediment to health care reform in Post-Communist Russia / Mark G. Field -- Modernization and health reform in Saudi Arabia / Eugene B. Gallagher -- Health care reform in Israel / Revital Gross and Ofra Anson -- Health care reform in Argentina / Susana Belmartino -- The unbearable homogeneity of reform: The Mexican health care system reform / Luis Duran-Arenas, Malaquias Lopez-Cervantes, Octavio Gomez-Dantes and Sandra Sosa-Rubi -- Health sector reform: The Indian experience / Rama V. Baru -- Reform of the Australian health care landscape: The contested terrain of development and innovation / Donald Stewart and Ian England -- Rural health care reforms in the People's Republic of China / Ofra Anson -- The health care reform initiative in Thailand / Pathom Sawanpanyalert -- Health care reform and global hegemony / Andrew C. Twaddle.

Summary: Health care reforms around the world--from Europe and North America to Africa, Latin America and Asia--seem to all be market-oriented reforms driven by international business interests and right wing political parties. There seems to be a sudden and broad concern with the ""efficiency"" of medical care, with the assertion that democratically or professionally run systems are inherently inefficient. Far less concern is evident for the more traditional values held regarding medical care, ""effectiveness"" (or quality) and ""equity."" The fact is that we have little good cross-national research t.

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Health care reforms around the world--from Europe and North America to Africa, Latin America and Asia--seem to all be market-oriented reforms driven by international business interests and right wing political parties. There seems to be a sudden and broad concern with the ""efficiency"" of medical care, with the assertion that democratically or professionally run systems are inherently inefficient. Far less concern is evident for the more traditional values held regarding medical care, ""effectiveness"" (or quality) and ""equity."" The fact is that we have little good cross-national research t.

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