Comparing Health Systems
- Length: 186 pages
- Edition: F
- Language: English
- Publisher: Policy Press
- Publication Date: 2021-11-05
- ISBN-10: 1447356926
- ISBN-13: 9781447356929
- Sales Rank: #1497461 (See Top 100 Books)
Health services are among the most expensive and complex areas of social policy. Using qualitative comparative analysis to explore 11 developed countries’ health services, this volume considers the links between a range of different outcome measures and levels of funding, social determinants and different types of health expenditures. It also reflects on how those systems responded to the first wave of COVID-19. This ambitious text identifies which underpinning factors are associated with the strongest outcomes, providing a rigorous account of health systems and health policies in the context of their wider economies and societies.
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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