Presents a comprehensive overview of the current state of health care and availability worldwide--focusing on the approach to the provision of quality, cost-effective health care systems.
Preface
iii
Contributors
vii
Introduction to International Health Care Systems: Themes and Variations on Themes
1
(28)
Edward T. Wimberley
Khi V. Thai
Reforms in the Hungarian Health Care System
29
(30)
Tamas Evetovits
Russia's Health Care System: Caring in a Turbulent Environment
59
(20)
Elena A. Bourhanskaia
Aren Kubataev
Mary A. Paterson
The Canadian Health Care System
79
(20)
Kant Patel
Mark E. Rushefsky
The United States Health Care System
99
(36)
Carole M. Pohl
Like Plugging the Holes in a Colander: Health Policy and Provision in the United states circa the Millennium
135
(72)
Edward T. Wimberley
Arthur J. Rubens
The Health Services System in Mexico World Health Organization
207
(28)
France's Health Care System
235
(26)
Peter L. Cruise
Universal Coverage and Cost Control: United Kingdom National Health Service
261
(26)
Karen Bloor
Alan Maynard
Sweden's Health Care System
287
(46)
Paul Gunnar Kaati
The German Health Care System
333
(26)
Balu Swami
Italy's Health Care System
359
(36)
Michelle A. Angeletti
The Political Economy of Health Care in Greece
395
(36)
Dimitris Niakas
Health Care System in Turkey
431
(26)
Fahreddin Tatar
Tevfik Dincer
The Japanese Health Care System: Citizen Complaints and Citizen Possibilities
457
(30)
Rieko Yajima
Kazue Takayanagi
The Health Care System in Australia
487
(18)
Helen M. Lapsley
A Health Care System in Radical Transition: The Experience of New Zealand
505
(38)
Laurence Malcolm
Health Care Financing: A Comparative Analysis
543
(30)
Khi V. Thai
Sharon M. McManus
Edward T. Wimberley
Index
573
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