Comparing health systems /
Ian Greener
- vi, 180 pages : 23 cm.
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Bibliographical references (pages 166-171) and indices (pages 172-180).
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 Comparing the 10- and 31-country solutions -- Conclusion -- 7 Conclusion -- Low outcome solutions -- Learning from high outcome solutions -- The United States -- The United Kingdom -- Strengths and weaknesses -- Conclusion -- Consistency -- Coverage -- Calibration -- References -- Appendix: Method and data -- Consistency -- Coverage -- Calibration -- Notes -- References -- Index -- Back Cover Curative versus preventative -- Data and expectations -- High care score results -- Results: high health outcomes -- Results: high care score and high outcomes score -- Discussion of results -- Conclusion -- Case studies -- Canada -- The United States -- 5 COVID-19 -- Introduction -- Data and calibration -- Results -- Low COVID-19 mortality -- Low COVID-19 cases -- COVID-19 mortality or COVID-19 cases -- Discussion of results -- Conclusion -- 6 Comparing health systems -- Introduction -- Causal factors -- High health outcomes -- Preventable years of life lost -- High outcomes (low PYLL measures) Results: high health outcomes -- Results: high health equity -- Results: high health equity and health outcomes -- Discussion of results -- Conclusion -- Case studies -- Germany -- Switzerland -- Australia -- 3 Healthcare funding -- Introduction -- Healthcare funding -- Issues and tensions in health funding -- High health access -- Results: high efficiency -- High access and efficiency -- Discussion of results -- Conclusion -- Case studies -- The United Kingdom -- New Zealand -- France -- 4 Spending on health -- Introduction -- Health expenditure -- Curative versus long-term expenditures
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Using qualitative comparative analysis to explore eleven developed countries' health services, this ambitious text identifies which factors are associated with the strongest outcomes
Medical care--Developed countries Medical policy--Developed countries COVID-19 (Disease)--Developed countries COVID-19 (Disease)--Government policy--Developed countries