Health Care Reform Around the World

(Hardback)

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Health care reforms around the worldfrom Europe and North America to Africa, Latin America and Asiaseem to all be market-oriented reforms driven by international business interests and right wing political parties. There seems to be a sudden and broad concern with the efficiency of medical care, with the assertion that democratically or professionally run systems are inherently inefficient. Far less concern is evident for the more traditional values held regarding medical care, effectiveness (or quality) and equity. The fact is that we have little good cross-national research that systematically addresses the reform issue. This book addresses that problem, and attempts to look at health care reforms in a number of countries, representing as wide a spectrum as possible, and using a common conceptual framework that allows for comparable information to be gathered and presented on each, despite differing levels of socio-economic development. The authors agreed on a set of models that were thought to provide reasonable guidance in answering the questions of the source of pressures for reform, the alternative modes of organization that have been found in the world in recent years, and the direction of change among those alternatives.

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[a]n interesting collection of snapshots of one of the most important questions of our time.-Research News & Opportunities in Science and Technology
[p]rovides a cohesive and coherent comparison of medical care reforms in countries that differ widely in organization and in types of medical care systems, leading to some advancement in looking at medical care reform as a global phenomenon....This is a book of interest to academic libraries that support a health sciences program as well as public libraries.-E-Streams
"an interesting collection of snapshots of one of the most important questions of our time."-Research News & Opportunities in Science and Technology
"provides a cohesive and coherent comparison of medical care reforms in countries that differ widely in organization and in types of medical care systems, leading to some advancement in looking at medical care reform as a global phenomenon....This is a book of interest to academic libraries that support a health sciences program as well as public libraries."-E-Streams
"[a]n interesting collection of snapshots of one of the most important questions of our time."-Research News & Opportunities in Science and Technology
"[p]rovides a cohesive and coherent comparison of medical care reforms in countries that differ widely in organization and in types of medical care systems, leading to some advancement in looking at medical care reform as a global phenomenon....This is a book of interest to academic libraries that support a health sciences program as well as public libraries."-E-Streams

Author Bio

ANDREW C. TWADDLE is Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri, Columbia.