This work looks at the way in which health care is organized and delivered in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US. It also examines the continuing quest for solutions to some of the seemingly intractable problems on the health care agenda. The organization of health care in each country is analyzed within a common framework.

This work looks at the way in which health care is organized and delivered in Australia, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the UK and the US. It also examines the continuing quest for solutions to some of the seemingly intractable problems on the health care agenda. The organization of health care in each country is analyzed within a common framework.

The health care system in Britain at the beginning of the twenty-first century is being subjected to radical rethinking. Health Policy examines how the NHS has developed to the point it has reached today as well as placing it in the wider context of the kinds of health care which are available to people in Britain.
It looks at key issues which have arisen in the provision of health care such as rationing, the operation of interest groups, relationships between the public, voluntary and private sectors and whether the NHS has delivered care equally to all sectors of the population.
In...

The health care system in Britain at the beginning of the twenty-first century is being subjected to radical rethinking. Health Policy examines how the NHS has developed to the point it has reached today as well as placing it in the wider context of the kinds of health care which are available to people in Britain.
It looks at key issues which have arisen in the provision of health care such as rationing, the operation of interest groups, relationships between the public, voluntary and private sectors and whether the NHS has delivered care equally to all sectors of the population.
In...