The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System

ISBN-13: 9780521571227 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 240 str.

John Campbell; Naoki Ikegami

Opis

Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. Taking a comparative perspective, the authors describe the politics of health care in Japan, the variety of providers, the universal health insurance system, and how the fee schedule constrains costs. Special attention is paid to issues of quality, to the difficult problems of assuring adequate high-tech medicine and long-term care, and to possible lessons for the United States.

Recenzje

"Campbell and Ikegami provide a concise and informative description of how Japan's health system works, analyze how the system has achieved such exemplary results, and propose some specific lessons for the United States. This book is likely to become the standard text on Japan's health system and is timely for the global debate about how to reform health systems. The book's argument to explain Japan's successes in health policy, therefore, deserves serious consideration. Campbell and Ikegami have written an accessible and concise book about Japan's health policy, as a lens for viewing and critiquing the persistent problems in the American health-care system." Journal of Japanese Studies

Spis treści

Preface; 1. Low health care spending in Japan; 2. Actors, arenas, and agendas in health policy making; 3. Health care providers; 4. The egalitarian health insurance system; 5. The macropolicy of cost containment; 6. The micropolicy of cost containment; 7. The quality problem; 8. Lessons?; 9. Notes.