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Comparative health policy / Robert H. Blank and Viola Burau

Author
Blank, Robert H.
Published
Basingstoke : Palgrave Macmillan, 2014.
Edition
4th edition.
Physical Description
xvii, 373 pages ; 24 cm
Additional Creators
Burau, Viola Desideria

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Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1.Comparative Health Policy: An Introduction -- Health care as public policy -- Comparative health policy -- Classifications of health care systems -- Countries selected for study -- Types of health care -- Growing problems in health policy -- Ageing populations -- Medical technology and health policy -- Rising public expectations and demands -- Conclusions -- 2.The Context of Health Care -- Institutionalist explanations: contrasting political systems -- Legal systems -- Cultural explanations: cultural/historical factors shaping health care -- Different approaches to defining health -- Culture and traditional medicine -- Functionalist explanations: population, wealth and economics -- Population size and diversity -- The context of health care -- 3.Funding, Provision and Governance -- Comparing funding of health systems -- National health services and the commitment to public funding -- Public funding through social insurance -- Private insurance and the emphasis on individual responsibility -- Control of funding and pressures for reform -- Health services and patient choice -- Welfare mixes in the provision of health care -- Models of contracting health services -- Health governance between centre and locality -- The authority of governments in health policy -- 4.Setting Priorities and Allocating Resources -- The goals of health policy -- The government and the marketplace -- Allocation and rationing: the need to set priorities -- Rationing by lifestyle and age -- Efforts to control new technologies -- Information technologies in medical practice -- Trends in priority setting -- 5.The Medical Profession -- Who doctors are -- Types and settings of medical practice -- Reforming medical practice -- Paying for medical care -- The organization of doctors' interests and access to the policy process -- Doctors, the state and health policy -- 6.Beyond the Hospital: Health Care in the Home -- Home care statistics -- Providing home health care -- Funding home health care -- The interface between formal and informal care -- Policy trends and developments -- 7.Public Health -- Global public health -- Global health challenges -- The individual and public health -- Framing a public health policy -- Public health responsibility and funding -- Health promotion policies -- Homelessness and inadequate housing -- Environmental health -- Public health: putting the medical model in perspective -- 8.Understanding Health Policy Comparatively -- Health systems and explaining health policies -- Possibilities and limitations for cross-national learning -- Contribution to the comparative study of health policy.
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ISBN
1137023562 (pbk.)
9781137023575 (hbk.)
1137023570 (hbk.)
9781137023568 (pbk.)
Note
Previous edition: 2010.
Bibliography Note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 311-359) and index.
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