Handbook of international health care systems
By: edited by Khi V. Thai, Edward T. Wimberley, Sharon M. McManus.
Contributors: Thai, Khi V., 1941-; Wimberley, Edward T.; McManus, Sharon M.
Series: Public administration and public policy -- 96
Publisher: Marcel Dekker
Published: 2002
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 604
Subjects: World health -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Medical care -- Cross-cultural studies -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Public health administration -- Handbooks; Health services administration -- Handbooks
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.; Cross-cultural studies; Handbooks.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction to international health care systems: themes and variations on themes / Edward T. Wimberley and Khi V. Thai; title: Reforms in the Hungarian health care system / Tamás Evetovits; title: Russia's health care system: caring in a turbulent environment / Elena A. Bourhanskaia, Aren Kubataev, and Mary A. Paterson; title: The Canadian health care system / Carole M. Pohl; title: Like plugging the holes in a colander: health policy and provision in the United States circa the Millennium / Edward T. Wimberley and Arthur J. Rubens; title: The health services system in Mexico / World Health Organization; title: France's health care system / Peter L. Cruise; title: Universal coverage and cost control: the United Kingdom National Health Service / Karen Bloor and Alan Maynard; title: Sweden's health care system / Paul Gunnar Kaati; title: The German health care system / Balu Swami; title: Italy's health care system / Michelle A. Angeletti; title: The political economy of health care in Greece / Dimitris Niakas; title: Health care system in Turkey / Fahreddin Tatar and Tevfik Dinc̦er; title: The Japanese health care system: citizen complaints and citizen possibilities / Rieko Yajima and Kazue Takayanagi; title: The health care system in Australia / Helen M. Lapsley; title: A health care system in radical transition: the experience of New Zealand / Laurence Malcolm; title: Health care financing: a comparative analysis / Khi V. Thai, Sharon M. McManus, and Edward T. Wimberley.