Comparing Health Systems
Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to explore 11 developed countries' health services, this ambitious text identifies which factors are associated with the strongest outcomes.
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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[S.l.] :
Policy Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Front Cover
- Comparing Health Systems
- Copyright information
- Table of contents
- List of figures and tables
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Introduction
- Health systems
- The social determinants of health
- Health funding
- Health expenditure
- COVID-19
- Comparing health systems
- Health outcomes
- Social determinants outcomes
- Health funding outcomes
- Health expenditure outcomes
- Qualitative Comparative Analysis
- Case studies
- Norway
- Sweden
- The Netherlands
- 2 Social determinants
- Introduction
- Social determinants of health
- Directional expectations
- Results: high health outcomes
- Results: high health equity
- Results: high health equity and health outcomes
- Discussion of results
- Conclusion
- Case studies
- Germany
- Switzerland
- Australia
- 3 Healthcare funding
- Introduction
- Healthcare funding
- Issues and tensions in health funding
- High health access
- Results: high efficiency
- High access and efficiency
- Discussion of results
- Conclusion
- Case studies
- The United Kingdom
- New Zealand
- France
- 4 Spending on health
- Introduction
- Health expenditure
- Curative versus long-term expenditures
- Curative versus preventative
- Data and expectations
- High care score results
- Results: high health outcomes
- Results: high care score and high outcomes score
- Discussion of results
- Conclusion
- Case studies
- Canada
- The United States
- 5 COVID-19
- Introduction
- Data and calibration
- Results
- Low COVID-19 mortality
- Low COVID-19 cases
- COVID-19 mortality or COVID-19 cases
- Discussion of results
- Conclusion
- 6 Comparing health systems
- Introduction
- Causal factors
- High health outcomes
- Preventable years of life lost
- High outcomes (low PYLL measures)
- Comparing the 10- and 31-country solutions
- Conclusion
- 7 Conclusion
- Low outcome solutions
- Learning from high outcome solutions
- The United States
- The United Kingdom
- Strengths and weaknesses
- Conclusion
- Consistency
- Coverage
- Calibration
- References
- Appendix: Method and data
- Consistency
- Coverage
- Calibration
- Notes
- References
- Index
- Back Cover