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Author Tuohy, Carolyn Hughes, 1945-

Title Accidental logics : the dynamics of change in the health care arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy
Published New York : Oxford University Press, 1999

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages)
Contents Ch. 1. Understanding the dynamics of change in the health care arena -- pt. I. Episodes of policy change -- Ch. 2. The establishment of the welfare state in the health care arena -- Ch. 3. The reforms of the 1990s -- Ch. 4. Institutions, ideas, interests, actors, and the accidents of policy episodes -- pt. II. The distinctive logics of national systems -- Ch. 5. The United States: the logic of the mixed market -- Ch. 6. Britain: the logic of corporatism meets the internal market -- Ch. 7. Canada: the logic of the single-payer system -- Ch. 8. Conclusion
Summary Looks at the USA, Britain and Canada to offer an international comparative study of public policy systems, as well as a recent history of the evolution of each national health care system. The book explores what drives change and why certain changes occur in some nations and not in others
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index
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Subject Medical policy -- United States -- Decision making
Medical policy -- Great Britain -- Decision making
Medical policy -- Canada -- Decision making
Medical care -- United States -- Finance -- Decision making
Medical care -- Great Britain -- Finance -- Decision making
Medical care -- Canada -- Finance -- Decision making
Medical policy.
Health Policy
Delivery of Health Care -- economics
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL -- Public Health.
MEDICAL -- Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- General.
MEDICAL -- Diseases.
MEDICAL -- Health Care Delivery.
Medical policy
Medical care -- Finance -- Decision making
Medical policy -- Decision making
Gezondheidszorg.
Veranderingsprocessen.
Politieke besluitvorming.
SUBJECT Canada https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D002170
United Kingdom https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D006113
United States https://id.nlm.nih.gov/mesh/D014481
Subject Canada
Great Britain
United States
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1429401346
9781429401340
0195351878
9780195351873
9780195128215
0195128214
1280530421
9781280530425