Handbook of International Health Care Systems

ISBN-13: 9780824788292 / Angielski / Twarda / 2001 / 608 str.

Edward T. Wimberley; Sharon M. McManus; Khi V. Thai

Opis

A comprehensive overview of the state of health care and availability worldwide. It focuses on the approach to the provision of quality, cost-effective health-care systems.

Spis treści

Introduction to international health-care systems - themes and variations; reforms in the Hungarian health-care system; Russia's health-care system - caring in a turbulent environment; the Canadian health-care system; United States' health-care system; like plugging the holes in a colander - health policy and provision in the US circa the millennium; the health-care system in Mexico; France's health-care system; universal coverage and cost control - the United Kingdom National Health Service; Sweden's health-care system; the German health-care system; Italy's health-care system; the political economy of health care in Greece; health-care system in Turkey; the Japanese health-care system - citizen complaints and citizen possibilities; the health-care system in Australia; a health-care system in radical transition - the experience of New Zealand; health-care financing - a comparative analysis.

O autorze

Thai, Khi V. ; Wimberley, Edward T.; McManus, Sharon M.