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Health Care Reform and Globalisation : the US, China and Europe in Comparative Perspective.

In the post-Cold War, post financial crisis era, health care is an issue of critical political, personal and economic concern. In the US, plans to address a troubled health care model were met by vocal opposition. In the UK and post-communist Europe, attempts to introduce aspects of that model have...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Watson, Peggy
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012.
Series:Routledge advances in health and social policy.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyrigjht Page; Contents; List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Introductory remarks and acknowledgements; 1 Producing public opinion: how the insurance industry shaped US health care; 2 The break-up of the NHS: implications for information systems; 3 Rethinking problems surrounding access to care:the moral economies shaping health care workforces in Russia and the USA; 4 Human oriented? Angels and monsters in China's health care reform; 5 We are all in this together
  • European policies and health systems change.
  • 6 Catastrophic citizenship and discourses of disguise: aspects of health care change in Poland7 The making of health care policy in contemporary Hungary; 8 Community health services in urban China: a geographical case study of access to care; 9 'Health care and change': popular protest and building alternative visions of health systems at the end of empire; Index.