State Intervention in Medical Care : Consequences for Britain, France, Sweden, and the United States, 1890-1970 / J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Jerald Hage, Robert Hanneman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hollingsworth, J. Rogers, Author.

Hage, Jerald, Author.

Hanneman, Robert, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social medicine--Europe.

Social medicine.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 266 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

State Intervention in Medical Care is a substantial and unique contribution to the ongoing debate about government participation in the delivery of medical care. It offers historical, cross-national comparisons of the performance of medical systems in Britain, France, Sweden, and the United States over most of the last century. J. Rogers Hollingsworth, Jerald Hage, and Robert A. Hanneman examine the impact of state intervention on a number of characteristics: mortality rates, the per capita cost of medical care, the social efficiency of the delivery of services, the introduction and diffusion of innovations, and the equality of the system-including not only regional or spatial equality but also equality in access to medical resources and equality in levels of health across social classes and income groups.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments / Hollingsworth, J. Rogers / Hage, Jerald / Hanneman, Robert A.

1. Theoretical Perspectives: An Introduction

2. Four National Medical Systems

3. The Costs of Care

4. Improving Levels of Health

5. Medical Innovation

6. Social Efficiency

7. Equal Care and Unequal Health

8. State Intervention versus Privatization

Appendix 1. Sources for Tables

Appendix 2. Index Construction

Appendix 3. Regression Analysis

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 21. Dez 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-4589-1

OCLC:

1125106816