The Second Edition of Comparative Health Systems: A Global Perspective offers new perspectives in health administration, public health, and public policy that address evidence-based approaches to health system improvement; systems thinking at the policy level; integrated information management; macro and micro innovation, and systems sustainability. Part I offers introduces foundational concepts including health and disease; and policy and economics. Two new chapters explore innovation and sustainability; and the role and contributions of non-governmental organizations. In Part II, the health systems of 19 countries are each examined in their own chapter, that carefully explores the country’s geography and culture, the history of its health system, followed by a detailed evaluation of cost, quality, access and innovation.
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The Second Edition of Comparative Health Systems: A Global Perspective addresses emerging events, advances, reforms, and challenges in the delivery of health care around the world.
Fredriksson, M. and U. Winblad (2008) 'Consequences of a Decentralized Healthcare Governance Model: Measuring Regional ... Gibson, D. and R. Means (2000) 'Policy Convergence: Restructuring Long-term Care in Australia and the UK', ...
Comparative Health Systems: Global Perspective
Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to explore 11 developed countries’ health services, this ambitious text identifies which factors are associated with the strongest outcomes.
The work culminates as a unique and essential resource for pre-med and medical students, as well as researchers in sociology, economics, and the health management fields.
" Political Studies Review Based upon research from eight countries in the Asia-Pacific – Australia, China, Hong Kong, Japan, New Zealand, Singapore, South Korea, Taiwan – this book analyses and compares their differing health policies.
Ernst, Kelly, Rachel Irwin, Michael Galsworthy, et al. 'Difficulties of Tracing Health Research Funded by the European Union'. Journal of Health Services Research and Policy 15, no. 3 (2010): 133–6. Essue, Beverley, Patrick Kelly, ...
Both the structure and the dynamics of health services in fourteen leading industrialized nations--in standardized form to facilitate comparison--are presented here by experts. A comprehensive picture is given of each...
This accessible text is designed for undergraduate and beginning graduate students in various health-related disciplines.