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Six countries, six reform models : the healthcare reform experience of Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland, and Taiwan : healthcare reforms "under the radar screen" by Kieke G Okma; Tsung-mei Cheng; David Chinitz; Luca Crivelli; Meng-kin Lim; Hans Maarse; Toni Ashton; Tim Tenbensel; Iva Bolgiani; Rachel Meislin is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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This book presents the healthcare reform experiences of six small- to mid-sized, but dynamic, economies spanning the Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Europe. Usually not given serious consideration in major international comparisons because of their small size, each in fact provides a fascinating case study that illuminates the understanding of the dynamics of healthcare reform. Although dissimilar in historical and cultural backgrounds, they share some important features: all faced very similar pressures for change in the 1970s and 1980s; all considered a very similar range of policy options; and all did not only discuss but actually implemented fundamental changes in their healthcare funding, organization, contracting and governance structures with strikingly different outcomes.All of the authors have lived and worked in one or more of the countries studied in this volume. The analytic frameworks they use reflect their broad range of professional and disciplinary backgrounds in health economics and political science. Beyond mere descriptions of reform processes and superficial analyses based on aggregate data from the usual OECD or WHO sources, they seek to understand — and expl

Author

Kieke G Okma; Tsung-mei Cheng; David Chinitz; Luca Crivelli; Meng-kin Lim; Hans Maarse; Toni Ashton; Tim Tenbensel; Iva Bolgiani; Rachel Meislin

Publisher

World Scientific Publishing Company

Published

2009

Language

EN

ISBN

9789814261586

Subjects

Social Science, Anthropology, Sociology