UID:
almahu_9948234282902882
Format:
1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
ISBN:
9780511984044 (ebook)
Content:
Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. This book analyses how the health care works, and how it came into being. Taking a comparative perspective, the authors describe the politics of health care, the variety of providers, the universal health insurance system, and how the fee-schedule constrains costs at both the macro and micro levels. Special attention is paid to issues of quality and to the difficult problems of assuring adequate high-tech medicine and long-term care. Although the authors discuss the drawbacks to Japan's stringent cost-containment policy, they also keep in mind the possible implications for reform in the United States. Egalitarian values and a concern for 'balance' among constituents, the authors argue, are essential for cost containment as well as for access to health care.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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Low health care spending in Japan -- Actors, arenas, and agendas in health policy making -- Health care providers -- The egalitarian health insurance system -- The macropolicy of cost containment -- The micropolicy of cost containment -- The quality problem.
Additional Edition:
Print version: ISBN 9780521571227
Language:
English
URL:
https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511984044
