Health Care Systems of the Developed World

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Health Care Systems of the Developed World How the United States' System Remains an Outlier

Duane A. Matcha

ISBN: 0-275-97992-X

ISBN-13: 978-0-275-97992-8

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216 pages

Praeger Publishers

Publication: 9/30/2003

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Academia Academic Essentials-Public Health February 2004

Description: Presenting a brief analysis of health care systems in industrialized nations, the author includes the history, current realities, financing and delivery of services, as well as the impact of the systems on the core sociological variables—age, sex, social class, and race and ethnicity. The systems spotlighted are those in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Germany, Sweden, and Japan.

The author's study of these varied health care systems shows two models are significantly more comprehensive, regardless of country, and that health outcomes are differentiated on the basis of sociological variables, regardless of health care systems.

Table of Contents:

Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Introduction
The United States
Canada
United Kingdom
Germany
Sweden
Japan
Conclusion
Index

About the Author: DUANE A. MATCHA is Associate Professor of Sociology at Siena College in Loudenville, New York.

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