Health care reform around the world

Health care reform around the world / edited by Andrew C. Twaddle.

Health care reforms around the world--from Europe and North America to Africa, Latin America and Asia--seem to all be market-oriented reforms driven by international business interests and right wing political parties. There seems to be a sudden and broad concern with the ""efficiency"...

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Other Authors: Twaddle, Andrew C., 1938-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Westport, Conn. : Auburn House, ©2002.
Subjects:
Health care reform > Cross-cultural studies.
Cross-cultural studies.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Cross-cultural studies
Health care reform
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • International comparison of health care reform systems / Andrew C. Twaddle
  • Health system reforms: The United Kingdom's experience / David J. Hunter
  • Ideology and interests: Explaining Swedish medical care reform, 1991-1994: An overview / Andrew C. Twaddle
  • The changing faces of health care in Canada / Christel A. Woodward and Catherine A. Charles
  • The United States: Live free and die? / Albert F. Wessen
  • Introducing compulsory health insurance in Central Europe: Redirecting a wheel? / Stipe Oreskovic
  • The reform that, alas, succeeded: The case of Serbia / Vuk Stambolovic
  • The inelasticity of institutional patterns: An impediment to health care reform in Post-Communist Russia / Mark G. Field
  • Modernization and health reform in Saudi Arabia / Eugene B. Gallagher
  • Health care reform in Israel / Revital Gross and Ofra Anson
  • Health care reform in Argentina / Susana Belmartino
  • The unbearable homogeneity of reform: The Mexican health care system reform / Luis Duran-Arenas, Malaquias Lopez-Cervantes, Octavio Gomez-Dantes and Sandra Sosa-Rubi
  • Health sector reform: The Indian experience / Rama V. Baru
  • Reform of the Australian health care landscape: The contested terrain of development and innovation / Donald Stewart and Ian England
  • Rural health care reforms in the People's Republic of China / Ofra Anson
  • The health care reform initiative in Thailand / Pathom Sawanpanyalert
  • Health care reform and global hegemony / Andrew C. Twaddle.

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