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Health Care Systems in Transition
An International Perspective

Edited by:

Francis D. Powell - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, USA
Albert F. Wessen - Economics, Brown University

Other Titles in:
Health Care Management

January 1999 | 440 pages | SAGE Publications, Inc

This book offers an overview of health care systems in advanced industrial nations and its relation to current challenges from the USA. Part One offers guidelines for comparing health care reforms. Parts Two to Five examine health care and attempts at health care reform in Germany, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Part Six considers the impact on reform of structural differences in health care systems, and how national reform measures might be reflected in regional and state programmes in the United States.

PART ONE: INTRODUCTION

Albert F Wessen

The Comparative Study of Health Care Reform

David Mechanic

Lessons from Abroad

A Comparative Perspective

Mark Field

Comparative Health Systems and the Convergence Hypothesis

The Dialectics of Universalism and Particularism

PART TWO: THE GERMAN EXPERIENCE

Christa Altenstetter

From Solidarity to Market Competition

Values, Structure and Strategy in German Health Policy 1883-1997

Bradford Kirkman-Liff

Health Care Cost Containment in Germany

Bradley Scharf

Germany Unity and Health Care Reform

PART THREE: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE

Catherine Charles and Robin Badgley

Canadian National Health Insurance

Evolution and Unresolved Policy Issues

Catherine Fooks

Will Power, Cost Control and Health Reform in Canada, 1987-1992

Francois Béland

Preventive and Primary Care Access Systems

CLSCs as Neighborhood and Social Service Centers in Quebec

PART FOUR: THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE

Ellen Immergut

Historical and Institutional Foundations of the Swedish Health Care System

Richard Saltman

Evolving Roles of the National and Regional Governments in the Swedish Health Care System

Casten von Otter

Cost Control in the Swedish Health Sector

PART FIVE: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE

Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein

Britain's Health Care Experiment

John Appleby

The Reforms of the British National Health Service

Donald W Light

Policy Lessons from the British Health Care System

PART SIX: HEALTH CARE REFORM: TOWARD A SYNTHESIS

Albert F Wessen

Structural Differences and Health Care Reform

Francis D Powell

Patterns of Health Care System Change

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