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Recent data show wide disparity between Japan and the United States in the effectiveness of their health care systems. Japan spends close to the lowest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care among OECD countries, the United States spends the highest, yet life expectancies in Japan a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Cutler, David M. (Contribuidor), Geppert, Jeffery (Contribuidor), Iguchi, Akihiko (Contribuidor), Kadoda, Tamotsu (Contribuidor), Kawabuchi, Koichi (Contribuidor), Kawamura, Makoto (Contribuidor), Kuzuya, Masafumi (Contribuidor), Masuda, Yuichiro (Contribuidor), McClellan, Mark (Contribuidor), McGarry, Kathleen (Contribuidor), Noguchi, Haruko (Contribuidor), Ogura, Seiritsu (Contribuidor), Skinner, Jonathan (Contribuidor), Sugihara, Shigeru (Contribuidor), Suzuki, Reiko (Contribuidor), Suzuki, Wataru (Contribuidor), Wise, David A. (Contribuidor, Editor ), Yashiro, Naohiro (Contribuidor, Editor ), Zhou, Yanfei (Contribuidor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2007]
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research Conference Report
Temas:
Medical care > Japan.
Medical care > United States.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / General.
united states of america, american, japan, japanese, political economy, politics, economics, government, governing, healthcare, health issues, medical, medicine, aging, age, disparity, effectiveness, life expectancy, comparative studies, insurance, for profit hospitals, privatized, chronic illnesses, diseases, treatments, reform, population, citizenship, citizenry, elderly, heart attack, nicotine, caregiving, geography, efficiency.
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  • Frontmatter
  • National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • 1. Evaluating Japan's Health Care Reform of the 1990s and Its Efforts to Cope with Population Aging
  • 2. The U.S. Medical Care System for the Elderly
  • 3. An International Look at the Medical Care Financing Problem
  • 4. Removing the Instability and Inequity in the Japanese Health Insurance System
  • 5. The Volume-Outcome Relationship in Japan: The Case of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Volume on Mortality of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Patients
  • 6. Market Concentration, Efficiency, and Quality in the Japanese Home Help Industry
  • 7. A Comparison of the Quality of Health Care in the United States and Japan: Treatment and Outcomes for He art Attack Patients
  • 8. Geography and the Use of Effective Health Care in the United States
  • 9. Does Caregiving Affect Work? Evidence Based on Prior Labor Force Experience
  • 10. Conjoint Analysis to Estimate the Demand for Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Japan
  • Contributors
  • Author Index
  • Subject Index

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