Limit search to available items
Book Cover
Book
Author Ham, Christopher.

Title Health care reform : learning from international experience / edited by Chris Ham
Published Buckingham ; Philadelphia : Open University Press, 1997

Copies

Location Call no. Vol. Availability
 MELB  362.1094 Ham/Hcr  AVAILABLE
Description x, 147 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Series State of health series
State of health series.
Contents 1. The background / Chris Ham -- 2. The United States / Bradford Kirkman-Liff -- 3. The United Kingdom / Chris Ham -- 4. Sweden / Clas Rehnberg -- 5. The Netherlands / Wynand van de Ven -- 6. Germany / Friedrich Wilhelm Schwartz and Reinhard Busse -- 7. Lessons and conclusions / Chris Ham
Summary This book provides an up-to-date review and analysis of health care reform in five countries: Germany, Sweden, the Netherlands, the United Kingdom and the United States. It reviews the experience of introducing competition into the health service as well as policies to strengthen management and change methods of paying hospitals and doctors. The experience of each country is described by experts from the countries concerned. In this lucid introduction, Chris Ham sets out the context of reform, and in the conclusion identifies the emerging lessons. The book provides an authoritative introduction to health care reform in Europe and North America at a time of increasing political and public interest in this field. It has been designed for students of social policy and the full range of health service practitioners on courses of professional training
Analysis Competition
Germany
Government expenditure
Great Britain
Health care
Health insurance
International comparisons
Management
Netherlands
Overseas item
Reform
Sweden
United States
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Health care reform -- Europe.
Health care reform -- United States.
Health insurance -- Europe.
Health insurance -- United States.
Medical care -- Europe -- Finance.
Medical care -- United States -- Finance.
Medical policy -- Europe.
Medical policy -- United States.
Delivery of Health Care -- economics.
Health Care Reform.
Health Policy.
Insurance, Health.
SUBJECT Europe. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D005060
United States. https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Author Ham, Christopher.
LC no. 96052124
ISBN 0335198899 (paperback)
0335198902 (hard)