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Author De Kervasdoue, Jean

Title The End of an Illusion The Future of Health Policy in Western Industrialized Nations
Published Birmingham : University of California Press, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (316 p.)
Series Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series ; v.11
Comparative Studies of Health Systems and Medical Care Series
Contents Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Contributors -- Introduction: The End of an Illusion -- Part I. THE RECENT PAST AND THE PRESENT PREDICAMENT -- 1. Health Polio/ and the Expanding Role of the State: 1945-1980 -- Part II. THEMES FOR THE FUTURE -- 2. Perspectives on the State: Implications for Health Policy -- 3. Perspectives on Prevention: Health Promotion vs. Health Protection -- 4. Technology and the Need for Health Care Rationing -- 5. The Ethical Challenge of Health Care Rationing -- Part III. CASE STUDIES -- 6. France: Contemporary Problems and Future Scenarios
7. Québec: The Adventures of a Narcissistic State -- 8. Britain: Possible Futures for the National Health Service -- 9. The United States: A Social Forecast -- Part IV. CONCLUSION -- 10. The Future of Health Policy: Constraints, Controls and Choices -- Index
Summary This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1984
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Subject Medical policy -- Developed countries
Health planning -- Developed countries
Health care rationing -- Developed countries
Medical policy.
Health planning.
Health Policy
Health Planning
Health care rationing
Health planning
Medical policy
Developed countries
Form Electronic book
Author Kimberly, John R
Rodwin, Victor G
ISBN 9780520330504
0520330501