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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Greener, Ian
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: [S.l.] : Policy Press, 2021.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
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