The Business of Health: New Approaches to the Evolution of Health Systems in the World

ISBN-13: 9781032187396 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 202 str.

Pierre-Yves Donzé; Paloma Fernández Pérez

Opis

This book offers a discussion about the dramatic development of health care business around the world during the twentieth century. Through a broad range of cases in Asia, Europe, and the US, it shows how health was transformed into a fast-growing and diversified industry.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Health Industries in the Twentieth Century  2. Learning from giants: Early exposure to advanced markets in the growth and internationalisation of Spanish health care corporations in the twentieth century  3. Thriving in the shadow of giants: The success of the Japanese surgical needle producer MANI, 1956–2016  4. Challenging the Problem of ‘Fit’: Advancing the Regenerative Medicine Industries in the United States, Britain and Japan  5. ‘Importance of Germany to Countries around and to World Economy makes it impossible to ignore’ – The Rockefeller Foundation and Public Health in Germany after WWII  6. Socialisation of healthcare demand and development of the French health system (1890–1938)  7. China: The development of the health system during the Maoist period (1949–76)  8. Architects and knowledge transfer in hospital systems: The introduction of Western hospital designs in Japan (1918–1970)  9. The genesis, growth and organisational changes of private health insurance companies in Spain (1915–2015)