The Art of Balance in Health Policy: Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System

di John Creighton Campbell (Autore)

Naoki Ikegami (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2008

Compared to the rest of the world, Japan has a healthy population but pays relatively little for medical care. This book analyses how the health care works, and how it came into being. Taking a comparative perspective, the authors describe the politics of health care, the variety of providers, the universal health insurance system, and how the fee-schedule constrains costs at both the macro and micro levels. Special attention is paid to issues of quality and to the difficult problems of assuring adequate high-tech medicine and long-term care. Although the authors discuss the drawbacks to Japan's stringent cost-containment policy, they also keep in mind the possible implications for reform in the United States. Egalitarian values and a concern for 'balance' among constituents, the authors argue, are essential for cost containment as well as for access to health care.

• Autore: John Creighton Campbell, Naoki Ikegami
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2008
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 240 p.
• Dimensioni: 228 x 151 mm
• Peso: 356 gr.
• EAN: 9780521065054

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