Containing health care costs in Japan / Naoki Ikegami and John Creighton Campbell, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Michigan Publishing (University of Michigan), publisher.

Campbell, John Creighton.

Ikegami, Naoki, 1949-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Medical care, Cost of--Japan.

Medical care, Cost of.

Medical economics--Japan.

Medical economics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (376 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c1996.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

A comprehensive picture of costs in Japan's effective and efficient health care system.

Contents:

Contents; Introduction / Naoki Ikegami and John Creighton Campbell; Conventions and Usages; 1. Overview: Health Care in Japan / Naoki Ikegami; Section I: The Macroeconomics of Health Care; 2. Comparison of Health Expenditure Estimates between Japan and the United States / Yukiko Katsumata; 3. Factors in Health Care Spending: An Eight-Nation Comparison with OECD Data / Naoki Ikegami and Yoshinori Hiroi; 4. Afterword: Costs-The Macro Perspective / William C. Hsiao; Section II: The Microeconomics of Health Care; 5. The ""Natural Increase"" and Cost Control / Yoshinori Hiroi

15. The Impact of Financing Reform: Inclusive Per-Diem Reimbursement in Geriatric Care / Yasuo Takagi 16. Waiting Lists in Japanese Hospitals / Naoki Ikegami and Shunya Ikeda ; 17. Comparison of Hospital Length of Stay and Charges between Japan and the United States / Naoko Muramatsu and Jersey Liang; 18. Afterword: Implications for U.S. Health Care Policy Reform / William G. Weissert; Section V: Health Behavior and Attitudes; 19. Paradoxical Comparison of Health Care Needs, Utilization, and Costs between Japan and the United States / Hiroko Akiyama

20. Keeping Pressures off the Japanese Health Care System: The Contribution of Middle-Aged Women / Margaret Lock 21. The Three-Minute Cure: Doctors and Elderly Patients in Japan / Ruth Campbell; 22. Over My Dead Body: The Enigma and Economics of Death in Japan / Eric A. Feldman; 23. Afterword: Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Factors / Arnold J. Rosoff; Section VI: Politics and Health Care; 24. The Egalitarian Health Insurance System / John Creighton Campbell; 25. The Evolution of Fee-Schedule Politics in Japan / Mikitaka Masuyama and John Creighton Campbell

26. The Japan Medical Association and Private Practitioners' Income / Yasuo Takagi

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on information from the publisher.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-282-60478-3

9786612604782

0-472-02413-2

OCLC:

743201011