Research Catalog

Title

Comparative health policy / Robert H. Blank and Viola Burau.

Author

Blank, Robert H.

Publication

Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire ; New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.

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Additional Authors

Burau, Viola Desideria

Description

xvii, 373 pages : illustrations (black and white); 24 cm

Summary

Ageing populations, the proliferation of technologies, and intensified public expectations and demands, are all creating difficult problems for health care systems throughout the world. Some observers suggest that this is leading to a convergence towards the adoption of increasingly similar health policies. Others, however, argue that pre-existing national differences in structures, cultures and patterns of provision and governance preclude simple convergence. Comparative Health Policy provides a broad-ranging introduction to the funding, provision and governance in a wide range of health systems, using Australia, Britain, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, the Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, Taiwan and the USA as detailed examples throughout. Covering acute, long-term and public health services, it analyses the impact of variation in the relative emphasis on the goals of equity, quality and efficiency on priority setting and service provision, and assess What lessons can be learned about the consequences of various public/private mixes as well as policy and funding frameworks. Substantially revised and updated, the fourth edition includes additional coverage of the international context of health policy and of global health issues, such as the ongoing AIDS epidemic.

Subject

• Socioeconomic Factors
• Health Services > trends
• Delivery of Health Care > trends
• Cross-Cultural Comparison
• Health Policy > trends
• Social medicine > Cross-cultural studies
• Medical policy > Cross-cultural studies

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies

Note

• Previous edition: 2010.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-359) and index.

Contents

Comparative health policy : an introduction -- The context of health care -- Funding, provision and governance -- Setting priorities and allocating resources -- The medical profession -- Beyond the hospital : health care in the home -- Public health -- Understanding health policy comparatively.

ISBN

• 9781137023575 (hardback)
• 1137023570 (hardback)
• 9781137023568 (paperback)
• 1137023562 (paperback)

LCCN

^^2013444387

OCLC

• 871617339
• SCSB-12617136

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library