Accidental logics : the dynamics of change in the health care arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Tuohy, Carolyn Hughes, 1945- author.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical policy--United States--Decision making.

Medical policy.

Medical policy--Great Britain--Decision making.

Medical policy--Canada--Decision making.

Medical care--United States--Finance--Decision making.

Medical care.

Medical care--Great Britain--Finance--Decision making.

Medical care--Canada--Finance--Decision making.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (327 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York ; Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Looks at the USA, Britain and Canada to offer an international comparative study of public policy systems, as well as a recent history of the evolution of each national health care system. The book explores what drives change and why certain changes occur in some nations and not in others.

Contents:

Contents; 1. Understanding the Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena; The Conceptual Framework: The Accidental Logics of Change in Policy Arenas; Dimensions of Decision-Making Systems: Institutional Mix and Structural Balance; Policy Episodes and System Logics; The Economics of Health Care Delivery: Agency, Risk, and Localism; The Health Policy Agenda of the 1990's; Britain, the United States, and Canada; 2. The Establishment of the Welfare State in the Health Care Arena; 3. The Reforms of the 1990's; 4. Institutions, Ideas, Interests, Actors, and the Accidents of Policy Episodes

5. The United States: The Logic of the Mixed Market6. Britain: The Logic of Corporatism Meets the Internal Market; 7. Canada: The Logic of the Single-Payer System; 8. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index;

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-773273-9

1-280-53042-1

9786610530427

0-19-535187-8

1-4294-0134-6

OCLC:

191924460