Comparative Health Policy

Citation

(2005), "Comparative Health Policy", International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance, Vol. 18 No. 1. https://doi.org/10.1108/ijhcqa.2005.06218aae.001

Comparative Health Policy

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Comparative Health Policy

Robert Blank and Viola BurauPalgrave Macmillan2004ISBN 0 333 98599 0

Keywords: Health and medicine, Health services, Public health

This major new comparative text, which is aimed at both students and practitioners, analyses key issues in health policy to assess the extent to which policy problems and responses in different countries have common causes or spring from specific national circumstances. It analyzes what lessons can be learned about public/private mixes, provision and funding frameworks, and acute and preventive services in a wide range of health systems – systematically comparing Australia, Germany, Japan, New Zealand, The Netherlands, Sweden, Singapore, the UK and the USA, but ranging more widely as appropriate.

Contents include:

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  “Comparative health policy: an introduction”;

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  “Political, historical and cultural contexts”;

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  “Funding, provision and governance”;

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  “Setting priorities and allocating resources”;

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  “The medical profession”;

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  “Beyond the hospital: care in the home”;

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  “Public health”; and

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  “Understanding health policy comparatively”.