| Description |
1 online resource (350 p) All black and white images |
| Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Contributors -- 1. Introduction: Comments on the Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare Delivery -- Howard A. Palley -- 2. The Dominance of Public Funding for Private Provision in the US Healthcare System -- Colleen M. Grogan -- 3. Public and Private Interfaces in Canadian Healthcare: Health Equity and Quality of Healthcare Services Implications -- Gregory P. Marchildon and Sara Allin -- 4. Australia's Health Insurance System and Its Two-Level Hospital System-A Result of Muddled and Contested Objectives -- Stephen Duckett -- 5. The Public/Private Healthcare Mix in France: Implications and Current Debates -- Aurélie Pierre and Zeynep Or -- 6. Sweden's Public/Private Sector Mix in the Financing and Delivery of Healthcare Services: How It Relates to Health Equity and the Quality of Healthcare Services -- Anna Häger Glenngård -- 7. The Changing Private Sector Role in the Netherlands' Public/Private Sector Healthcare System: Some Considerations of Health Equity and Quality of Care -- Florien M. Kruse and Patrick Jeurissen -- 8. The Public/Private Sector Mix in the Italian Healthcare System: Some Issues of Equity and Quality of Care -- Federico Toth -- 9. Healthcare Commodification, Equity, and Quality in Chile and Mexico -- Pamela Bernales-Baksai and Ricardo Velázquez Leyer -- 10. Examining Improvements in a Mixed Healthcare System: Equity and Quality of Health Services in Uruguay -- Xavier Ballart and Guillermo Fuentes -- 11. The Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare: Inequities and Issues of Quality of Care: The Case of Brazil -- Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa Lobato, Monica de Castro Maia Senna, and Luciene Burlandy -- 12. The Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare in Russia: Some Impacts on Health Equity and Quality of Healthcare Services -- Tatiana Chubarova and Natalya Grigorieva -- 13. Taiwan: Achievements and Challenges in a Single-Payer System -- Michael K. Gusmano -- Index |
| Summary |
This volume examines the public/private sector mix in a number of national healthcare systems and their interface with the goals of health equity and quality of healthcare. Moreover, there is a consideration of public accountability. The unique significance of this collection of national studies involving the public/private sector mix of healthcare services and/or finances is that it provides insights into the factors that enhance the public/private sector mix in fulfilling the goals of health equity and the quality of healthcare services as well as an understanding of the circumstances in which elements of the public/private sector mix may be harmful for the achievement of such goals in a variety of national settings. The contributions to this volume provide a variety of perspectives for dealing with these objectives |
| Notes |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Delivery of Health Care
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Public-Private Sector Partnerships
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Quality of Health Care
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Health Equity
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Health Inequities
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780197571132 |
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0197571131 |
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