Health Services Privatization in Industrial Societies

Herausgeber: Scarpaci, Joseph L

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book is the first to look at the theory and practice of privatization of health services internationally. The contributors give original case studies of privatization in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, West Germany, France, Sweden, and Chile. Among the sectors of health care they examine are public and private hospitals, environmental health programs to prevent cancer, mental health care, prepaid health plans, and the multinational pharmaceutical industrial.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 321
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 1989
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 562g
• ISBN-13: 9780813514383
• ISBN-10: 081351438X
• Artikelnr.: 22028263

Autorenporträt

Scarpaci, Joseph L

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction : the theory and practice of health services privatization /
Joseph L. Scarpaci
Growth of proprietary hospitals in the United States : a historical
geographic perspective / James Bohland, Paul L. Knox
Privatizing the health and welfare state : the Western European experience
/ John Eyles
Restructuring the welfare state : the growth and impact of private
hospitals in New Zealand / J. Ross Barnett, Pauline Barnett
Rolling back the state? : privatization of health services under the
Thatcher governments / John Mohan
The politics of privatization : state and local politics and the
restructuring of hospitals in New York City / Sara L. McLafferty
The restructuring of mental health care in the United States / Christopher
J. Smith
Deinstitutionalization and privatization : community-based residential care
facilities in Ontario / Glenda Laws
Privatization, federalism, and cancer prevention in the United States :
abdicating a noble goal / Michael R. Greenberg
Dismantling public health services in authoritarian Chile / Joseph L.
Scarpaci
The role of multinational pharmaceutical firms in health care privatization
in developing countries / Wilbert Gesler
Conclusions : lessons on the methodological and conceptual issues of health
services privatization / Joseph L. Scarpaci