The Public-private Mix for Health: Plus Ça Change, Plus C'est la Même Chose?Alan Maynard This book brings together an international group of distinguished researchers and practitioners in health economics and health services who are national experts on the funding and provision of health care. Despite the great differences in the structures and cultures of their national systems they identify common issues and expound the policy debate about healthcare reform. Providing radical insights, scepticism towards simple solutions and an international perspective on the inequity, inefficiency and expense of health care systems, The Public-Private Mix for Health is vital reading for healthcare managers, policy makers and shapers, academics and researchers in health, society, politics and international studies. |
Contents
Efficient purchasing in public and private healthcare | 21 |
The publicprivate mix in the | 43 |
continuity and change | 63 |
The mix of public and private payers in the US health system | 83 |
the sustainability | 117 |
Publicprivate mix for health in France | 141 |
The publicprivate mix in Scandinavia | 161 |
Publicprivate mix for healthcare in Germany | 191 |
The publicprivate mix in health services in New Zealand | 219 |
The role of the private sector in the Australian healthcare | 247 |
Common challenges in healthcare markets | 279 |
Enduring problems in healthcare delivery | 293 |
Index | 311 |
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