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Comparing Health Systems
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Comparing Health Systems
ISBN
9781447356943
9781447356929
Publication
[S.l.] : Policy Press, 2021.
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©2021.
Physical Description
1 online resource (186 pages).
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Summary
Using Qualitative Comparative Analysis to explore 11 developed countries' health services, this ambitious text identifies which factors are associated with the strongest outcomes.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
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
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
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)
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
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