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...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Watson, Margaret, 1948-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Abingdon, Oxon : Routledge, 2013.
Series:Routledge advances in health and social policy
Subjects:
Health care reform > United States.
Health care reform > China.
Health care reform > Europe.
Medical policy > United States.
Medical policy > China.
Medical policy > Europe.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Producing public opinion : how the insurance industry shaped US health care / Wendell Potter
  • The break-up of the English NHS : the new market bureaucracy needs information systems based on members and not geographic populations / Allyson Pollock and David Price
  • Rethinking problems surrounding access to care : the moral economies shaping health care work forces in Russia and the U.S. / Michele Rivkin-Fish
  • Human oriented? : angels and monsters in China's healthcare reform / Mei Zhan
  • We are all in this together : European policies and health systems change / Meri Koivusalo
  • Catastrophic citizenship and discourses of disguise : aspects of health care change in Poland / Peggy Watson
  • The making of health care policy in contemporary hungary / Terry Cox and Sandor Gallai
  • Community health services in urban China : a geographical case study of access to care / Yu Wang [and others]
  • "Health care and change" : popular protest and building alternative visions of health systems at the end of empire / Howard Waitzkin and Rebeca Jasso-Aguilar.

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