The International Handbook of Health Care Systems
[P]rovides a useful compendium of miscellaneous information on a large number of countries, much of which is not usually available in English. Choice

The work is valuable in providing background for health statistics from different sources. As it shows common problems and widely varying approaches to solutions, it is a useful research tool for comparative studies. ARBA

The contributing authors provide basic information for starting to think about comparative issues in health care including system rationalization and managerial efficiency; the expansion of primary and preventive care; how best to channel the diffusion of increasingly intensive high technology machines and procedures; how to resolve social inequities in the distribution of available health care resources; spending on health care and its effect on infant mortality and population morbidity; the structure of health care administration; and health care financing. Each author provides not only a picture of the health system's current level of development, but a description of the dynamic forces that drive the system's health care decision-making processes and will determine its path in the future. The contributors highlight the unique historical, cultural, social, political, and/or ideological factors that help to explain the structure that currently exists. The profiles are not themselves comparative in nature, but the selected approach establishes a base from which a reader can make a wide variety of informed comparisons.

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The International Handbook of Health Care Systems
[P]rovides a useful compendium of miscellaneous information on a large number of countries, much of which is not usually available in English. Choice

The work is valuable in providing background for health statistics from different sources. As it shows common problems and widely varying approaches to solutions, it is a useful research tool for comparative studies. ARBA

The contributing authors provide basic information for starting to think about comparative issues in health care including system rationalization and managerial efficiency; the expansion of primary and preventive care; how best to channel the diffusion of increasingly intensive high technology machines and procedures; how to resolve social inequities in the distribution of available health care resources; spending on health care and its effect on infant mortality and population morbidity; the structure of health care administration; and health care financing. Each author provides not only a picture of the health system's current level of development, but a description of the dynamic forces that drive the system's health care decision-making processes and will determine its path in the future. The contributors highlight the unique historical, cultural, social, political, and/or ideological factors that help to explain the structure that currently exists. The profiles are not themselves comparative in nature, but the selected approach establishes a base from which a reader can make a wide variety of informed comparisons.

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The International Handbook of Health Care Systems

The International Handbook of Health Care Systems

by Richard B. Saltman
The International Handbook of Health Care Systems

The International Handbook of Health Care Systems

by Richard B. Saltman

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[P]rovides a useful compendium of miscellaneous information on a large number of countries, much of which is not usually available in English. Choice

The work is valuable in providing background for health statistics from different sources. As it shows common problems and widely varying approaches to solutions, it is a useful research tool for comparative studies. ARBA

The contributing authors provide basic information for starting to think about comparative issues in health care including system rationalization and managerial efficiency; the expansion of primary and preventive care; how best to channel the diffusion of increasingly intensive high technology machines and procedures; how to resolve social inequities in the distribution of available health care resources; spending on health care and its effect on infant mortality and population morbidity; the structure of health care administration; and health care financing. Each author provides not only a picture of the health system's current level of development, but a description of the dynamic forces that drive the system's health care decision-making processes and will determine its path in the future. The contributors highlight the unique historical, cultural, social, political, and/or ideological factors that help to explain the structure that currently exists. The profiles are not themselves comparative in nature, but the selected approach establishes a base from which a reader can make a wide variety of informed comparisons.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780313241116
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 09/07/1988
Pages: 409
Product dimensions: 6.14(w) x 9.21(h) x 0.94(d)

About the Author

RICHARD B. SALTMAN is Associate Professor in the Program in Health Policy and Management, Division of Public Health at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst.

Table of Contents

Argentina
Australia
Brazil
Colombia
Egypt
Federal Republic of Germany
German Democratic Republic
Great Britain
Hungary
Israel
Japan
Mozambique
Netherlands
Nigeria
Poland
Saudi Arabia
Spain
Sweden
Turkey
Union of Soviet Socialist Republics
United States of America
Bibliography
Index

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