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Health care issues in the United States and Japan /

In this book, chapters explore the structural characteristics of the health care systems in the United States and Japan, the economic incentives underlying the systems, and how they operate in practice.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Wise, David A., Yashiro, Naohiro, 1946-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, ©2006.
Colección:National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Evaluating Japan's health care reform of the 1990s and its efforts to cope with population aging / Naohiro Yashiro, Reiko Suzuki, and Wataru Suzuki
  • U.S. medical care system for the elderly / David M. Cutler and David A. Wise
  • International look at the medical care financing problem / David M. Cutler
  • Removing the instability and inequity in the Japanese health insurance system / Seiritsu Ogura, Tamotsu Kadoda, and Makoto Kawamura
  • Volume-outcome relationship in Japan / Koichi Kawabuchi and Shirgeru Sugihara
  • Market concentration, efficiency, and quality in the Japanese home help industry / Yanfei Zhou and Wataru Suzuki
  • Comparison of the quality of health care in the United States and Japan / Haruko Noguchi [and others]
  • Geography and the use of effective health care in the United States / Jonathan Skinner
  • Does caregiving affect work? / Kathleen McGarry
  • Conjoint analysis to estimate the demand for nicotine replacement therapy in Japan / Seiritsu Ogura [and others].