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Health care reform — learning from international experience
Author(s)	Chris Ham
Publisher	Open University Press, Buckingham, 1997
Pages	147 pp (State of health series)
Source	Marston Book Services Ltd., PO Box 269, Abingdon, Oxon OX14 4YN.
Keywords	Health services ; Policy ; International ; United States of America ; United Kingdom ; Sweden ; Netherlands ; Germany.
Annotation	This book seeks to promote learning about health care reform, by reviewing the experiences in five countries whose health care systems have undergone significant change in recent years: the United States, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and Germany. Each illustrates the differences of approach in methods of finance and delivery. The United States places reliance on private funding and provision, with use of competition to increase efficiency and patient choice; whereas the UK and Sweden, funding is through taxation. There is a different approach in the Netherlands and Germany, where social insurance is the predominant method of funding, and a mixed economy of public and private enterprises. This book is in part a successor volume to 'Health check', published in 1990, which also reviewed health service performance in a number of countries.
Accession Number	CPA-971016201 B
Classmark	L: QAD: 72: 7T: 8: 76P: 76H: 767
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