TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greener,Ian
ED  - Ohio Library and Information Network
TI  - Comparing health systems
SN  - 9781447356943 (ebook)
AV  - RA 393 .G74 2021
U1  - 362.1091722 23
PY  - 2021///
CY  - Bristol
PB  - Policy Press
KW  - Medical care
KW  - Developed countries
KW  - Medical policy
KW  - COVID-19 (Disease)
KW  - Government policy
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 07 Apr 2022); 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; Available to OhioLINK libraries; Hospital Administration & Management
N2  - Using qualitative comparative analysis to explore eleven developed countries' health services, this ambitious text identifies which factors are associated with the strongest outcomes
UR  - https://www.cambridge.org/core/product/identifier/9781447356943/type/BOOK
ER  -