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Health care reforms around the world-from Europe and North America to Africa, Latin America and Asia-seem to all be market-oriented reforms driven by international business interests and right wing political parties. There seems to be a sudden and broad concern with the
efficiency of medical care, with the assertion that democratically or professionally run systems are inherently inefficient. Far less concern is evident for the more traditional values held regarding medical care,
effectiveness (or quality) and
equity. The fact is that we have little good cross-national research that systematically addresses the reform issue.
This book addresses that problem, and attempts to look at health care reforms in a number of countries, representing as wide a spectrum as possible, and using a common conceptual framework that allows for comparable information to be gathered and presented on each, despite differing levels of socio-economic development. The authors agreed on a set of models that were thought to provide reasonable guidance in answering the questions of the source of pressures for reform, the alternative modes of organization that have been found in the world in recent years, and the direction of change among those alternatives.
List of contents
International Comparisons of Health Care Reform by Andrew C. Twaddle
Western Europe and North AmericaHealth System Reforms: The United Kingdom's Experience by David J. Hunter
Ideaology and Interests: Explaining Swedish Medical Care Reform 1991-1994: An Overview by Andrew C. Twaddle
Canada: The Changing Faces of Health Care in Canada by Chrystel Woodard and Catherine Charles
The United States: Live Free and Die? by Al Wesson
Eastern EuropeIntroducing Compulsory Health Insurance in Central Europe: Redirecting a Wheel? by Stipe Oreskovic
The Reform that, Alas, Succeeded (The Case of Serbia) by Vuk Stambolovic
The Inelasticity of Institutional Patterns: An Impediment to Health Care Reform in Post-Communist Russia by Mark Field
Middle EastModernization and Health Reform in Saudi Arabia by Eugene Gallagher
Health Care Reform in Israel by Revital Gross and Ofra Anson
Latin AmericaHealth Care Reform in Argentina by Susanna Belmartino
The Unbearable Homogeneity of Reform: The Mexican Health Care System Reform by Luis Duran-Aranas, et al.
Asia and OceaniaHealth Sector Reform: The Indian Experience by Rama Baru
Reform of the Australian Health Care Landscape: The Contested Terrain of Development and Innovation by Donald Stewart and Robert Bush
Rural Health Care Reforms in the People's Republic of China by Ofra Anson
Health Care Reform Initiative in Thailand by Pathom Sawanpanyalert
ConclusionHealth Care Reform and Global Hegemony by Andrew C. Twaddle
About the author
ANDREW C. TWADDLE is Professor of Sociology, University of Missouri, Columbia.
