War and health insurance policy in Japan and the United States
Subtitle: World War II to postwar reconstruction
By: Takakazu Yamagishi
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 189
ISBN-13: 9781421400686
Subjects: Health insurance; History; World War II; Delivery of Health Care; National Health Programs; Health Policy; Health Insurance; World War, 1939-1945; Medical care; Medical policy; History, 20th Century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [165]-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: pt. I PREWAR DEVELOPMENT OF HEALTH INSURANCE; title: 1.Learning from Germany: Japan before 1937; title: 2.Catching Up with Europe: The United States before 1941; title: pt. II HEALTH SECURITY AS NATIONAL SECURITY; title: 3.Creating a Public Health Insurance System: Japan, 1937-1945; title: 4.Forming a Hybrid Health Insurance System: The United States, 1941-1945; title: pt. III HEALTH INSURANCE IN THE POSTWAR PERIOD; title: 5.Consolidating the Hybrid Health Insurance System: The United States, 1945-1952; title: 6.Restoring the Public Health Insurance System: Japan, 1945-1952.