"Japan has a healthy population compared with the rest of the world, yet the Japanese pay relatively little for medical care. This book analyzes how Japan's health-care system works and how it came into being. Although the authors discuss the drawbacks to Japan's stringent cost-…
"The main thesis of the book is that the welfare state cannot have a sustainable future, given the overburdened state budget, unless it is managed by a strategic planning process. The book deals, moreover, with the new emergence of a nonprofit private sector that feeds a kind of…
"This volume makes a direct contribution to contemporary policy debates, offering a systematic analysis of the public-private dichotomy for social policy and covering four continents and two policy areas: health care and retirement pensions. It provides a comparative analysis of…
Financing health care in the European Union: challenges and policy responses
by European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, Mossialos, Elias, Thomson, Sarah, (Professor in health policy), Foubister, Thomas, European Parliament., Committee on Employment and Social Affairs
fromObservatory studies series
La première partie de l'ouvrage porte sur l'éthique sociale et les normes qui ont été à la base de l'instauration du système de santé au Québec et au Canada. La deuxième partie traite du financement des services de santé. La troisième partie aborde successivement la décentralisa…
