This book offers an overview of health care systems in advanced industrial nations and its relation to current challenges from the USA. Part One offers guidelines for comparing health care reforms. Parts Two to Five examine health care and attempts at health care reform in Germany, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Part Six considers the impact on reform of structural differences in health care systems, and how national reform measures might be reflected in regional and state programmes in the United States.
This book offers an overview of health care systems in advanced industrial nations and its relation to current challenges from the USA. Part One offers guidelines for comparing health care reforms. Parts Two to Five examine health care and attempts at health care reform in Germany, Canada, Sweden and the United Kingdom. Part Six considers the impact on reform of structural differences in health care systems, and how national reform measures might be reflected in regional and state programmes in the United States.
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Comparative Study of Health Care Reform - Albert F Wessen Lessons from Abroad - David Mechanic A Comparative Perspective Comparative Health Systems and the Convergence Hypothesis - Mark Field The Dialectics of Universalism and Particularism PART TWO: THE GERMAN EXPERIENCE From Solidarity to Market Competition - Christa Altenstetter Values, Structure and Strategy in German Health Policy 1883-1997 Health Care Cost Containment in Germany - Bradford Kirkman-Liff Germany Unity and Health Care Reform - Bradley Scharf PART THREE: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE Canadian National Health Insurance - Catherine Charles and Robin Badgley Evolution and Unresolved Policy Issues Will Power, Cost Control and Health Reform in Canada, 1987-1992 - Catherine Fooks Preventive and Primary Care Access Systems - Francois Béland CLSCs as Neighborhood and Social Service Centers in Quebec PART FOUR: THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE Historical and Institutional Foundations of the Swedish Health Care System - Ellen Immergut Evolving Roles of the National and Regional Governments in the Swedish Health Care System - Richard Saltman Cost Control in the Swedish Health Sector - Casten von Otter PART FIVE: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE Britain¿s Health Care Experiment - Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein The Reforms of the British National Health Service - John Appleby Policy Lessons from the British Health Care System - Donald W Light PART SIX: HEALTH CARE REFORM: TOWARD A SYNTHESIS Structural Differences and Health Care Reform - Albert F Wessen Patterns of Health Care System Change - Francis D Powell
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Comparative Study of Health Care Reform - Albert F Wessen Lessons from Abroad - David Mechanic A Comparative Perspective Comparative Health Systems and the Convergence Hypothesis - Mark Field The Dialectics of Universalism and Particularism PART TWO: THE GERMAN EXPERIENCE From Solidarity to Market Competition - Christa Altenstetter Values, Structure and Strategy in German Health Policy 1883-1997 Health Care Cost Containment in Germany - Bradford Kirkman-Liff Germany Unity and Health Care Reform - Bradley Scharf PART THREE: THE CANADIAN EXPERIENCE Canadian National Health Insurance - Catherine Charles and Robin Badgley Evolution and Unresolved Policy Issues Will Power, Cost Control and Health Reform in Canada, 1987-1992 - Catherine Fooks Preventive and Primary Care Access Systems - Francois Béland CLSCs as Neighborhood and Social Service Centers in Quebec PART FOUR: THE SWEDISH EXPERIENCE Historical and Institutional Foundations of the Swedish Health Care System - Ellen Immergut Evolving Roles of the National and Regional Governments in the Swedish Health Care System - Richard Saltman Cost Control in the Swedish Health Sector - Casten von Otter PART FIVE: THE BRITISH EXPERIENCE Britain¿s Health Care Experiment - Patricia Day and Rudolf Klein The Reforms of the British National Health Service - John Appleby Policy Lessons from the British Health Care System - Donald W Light PART SIX: HEALTH CARE REFORM: TOWARD A SYNTHESIS Structural Differences and Health Care Reform - Albert F Wessen Patterns of Health Care System Change - Francis D Powell
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