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What makes a good healthcare system? : comparisons, values, drivers

Title
What makes a good healthcare system? : comparisons, values, drivers / Alan Gillies.
Author
Gillies, Alan.
Publication
Abingdon, U.K. : Radcliffe Medical Press, ©2003.

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Description
viii, 213 pages : illustrations
Summary
This text examines the varied assumptions that underpin different views of what makes a good health care system and compares three national systems from the UK, Australia and Canada.
Subject
  • Public health
  • Medical policy
  • Medical care
  • Delivery of Health Care
  • Health Policy
  • Public Health
  • Patient Care
  • public health
  • Medical care
  • Medical policy
  • Public health
  • Australia
  • Canada
  • United Kingdom
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-206) and index.
Contents
1. People in their daily lives -- 2. People meet the healthcare system: two case studies -- 3. What is a good healthcare system? -- 4. Using the model to analyse healthcare systems -- 5. Values underpinning policy development -- 6. What is the reality in the UK? -- 7. What is the reality in Australia? -- 8. What is the reality in Canada? -- 9. Driver 1: finance -- 10. Driver 2: scandals -- 11. Driver 3: ideology -- 12. So what is a good healthcare system?
ISBN
  • 1857759214
  • 9781857759211
OCLC
  • ocm52231713
  • 52231713
  • SCSB-1304871
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library