Screen LibraryThe state and healthcare Comparing OECD countries /
Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain, Germany and the US, this volume is a thorough examination of the convergence toward hybrid forms of...
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| Literature type: | Electronic Software eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Transformations of the state
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http://www.palgraveconnect.com/doifinder/10.1057/9780230292345 |
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Describes developments in healthcare systems over nearly four decades. Combining cross-sectional studies on healthcare financing, provision and policy values with in-depth country studies of Britain, Germany and the US, this volume is a thorough examination of the convergence toward hybrid forms of healthcare systems. |
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Electronic book text. Epublication based on: 9780230005488, 2010. |
| Carrier Form: | 296 p. : 33 figures, 21. |
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9780230005488 9780230292345 : 0230292348 : |
| CLC: | R-013 |
| Contents: | PART ONE: INTRODUCTION Goals, methodology, state of the art The conceptual framework PART TWO: A QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS OF HEALTH CARE FINANCING AND SERVICE PROVISION IN THE OECD WORLD Health care financing Heatlh care service provision PART THREE: IN-DEPTH COUNTRY STUDIES Germany: A social insurance system sandwiched between growing competition and the shadow of hierarchy United Kingdom: The NHS - persistently strong state, increasingly strong market? United States: The coincidence of markets and hierarchies in a private health care system Changing values: Health policy in Germany, the UK and the US PART FOUR: CONCLUSIONS The transformation of ideal types into mixed regimes. |