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Comparing health systems.

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Book
Author/Creator:
Greener, Ian.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
Dr. William McDowell Mastin Fund.
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Medical care--Developed countries.
Medical care.
Medical policy--Developed countries.
Medical policy.
COVID-19 (Disease)--Developed countries.
COVID-19 (Disease).
COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy--Developed countries.
COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy.
Developed countries.
Physical Description:
1 online resource
polychrome
Place of Publication:
[Place of publication not identified] : Policy Press, 2021.
System Details:
text file
Contents:
Front Cover
Comparing Health Systems
Copyright information
Table of contents
List of figures and tables
Acknowledgments
1 Introduction
Health systems
The social determinants of health
Health funding
Health expenditure
COVID-19
Comparing health systems
Health outcomes
Social determinants outcomes
Health funding outcomes
Health expenditure outcomes
Qualitative Comparative Analysis
Case studies
Norway
Sweden
The Netherlands
2 Social determinants
Introduction
Social determinants of health
Directional expectations
Results: high health outcomes
Results: high health equity
Results: high health equity and health outcomes
Discussion of results
Conclusion
Germany
Switzerland
Australia
3 Healthcare funding
Healthcare funding
Issues and tensions in health funding
High health access
Results: high efficiency
High access and efficiency
The United Kingdom
New Zealand
France
4 Spending on health
Curative versus long-term expenditures
Curative versus preventative
Data and expectations
High care score results
Results: high health outcomes
Results: high care score and high outcomes score
Canada
The United States
5 COVID-19
Data and calibration
Results
Low COVID-19 mortality
Low COVID-19 cases
COVID-19 mortality or COVID-19 cases
6 Comparing health systems
Causal factors
High health outcomes
Preventable years of life lost
High outcomes (low PYLL measures)
Comparing the 10- and 31-country solutions
7 Conclusion
Low outcome solutions
Learning from high outcome solutions
Strengths and weaknesses
Consistency
Coverage
Calibration
References
Appendix: Method and data
Notes
Index
Back Cover
Notes:
Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
Local Notes:
Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Dr. William McDowell Mastin Fund.
Other Format:
Print version:
ISBN:
9781447356943
1447356942
Publisher Number:
99988833080
Access Restriction:
Restricted for use by site license.

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