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War and health insurance policy in Japan and the United States : World War II to postwar reconstruction / Takakazu Yamagishi.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Yamagishi, Takakazu, 1972-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Medical policy--United States--History--20th century.
- Medical policy.
- Health insurance--United States--History--20th century.
- Health insurance.
- Medical policy--Japan--History--20th century.
- Health insurance--Japan--History--20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--United States.
- World War, 1939-1945.
- World War, 1939-1945--Medical care--Japan.
- National Health Insurance, United States--history.
- National Health Programs--history.
- History.
- Japan.
- United States.
- Medical Subjects:
- National Health Insurance, United States--history.
- National Health Programs--history.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 189 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2011.
- Summary:
- Yamagishi (British and American studies, Nazan U., Japan) offers a comparative exploration of how World War II shaped the health insurance systems of Japan and the United States. He argues that while both countries expanded health insurance coverage, they adopted different insurance systems (Japan's being public and nearly universal while the US relied on private insurance companies), largely due to variations in their experiences with war, including duration and depth of mobilization, sequence of the war, and result of the war. Annotation ©2011 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
- Contents:
- Part I Prewar Development of Health Insurance 17
- 1 Learning from Germany: Japan before 1937 19
- 2 Catching Up with Europe: The United States before 1941 32
- Part II Health Security as National Security 49
- 3 Creating a Public Health Insurance System: Japan, 1937-1945 53
- 4 Forming a Hybrid Health Insurance System: The United States, 1941-1945 72
- Part III Health Insurance in the Postwar Period 97
- 5 Consolidating the Hybrid Health Insurance System: The United States, 1945-1952 99
- 6 Restoring the Public Health Insurance System: Japan, 1945-1952 115.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781421400686
- 1421400685
- OCLC:
- 682893565
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