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Comparative Health Systems

Comparative Health Systems

Comparative Health Systems

A New Framework
Federico Toth, Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy
September 2021
Available
Hardback
9781108477963

    The standard classifications of health systems don't allow for the complexity and variety that exists around the world. Federico Toth sets out a new framework for understanding the many ways in which health systems can be organized and systematically analyses the health systems chosen by 27 OECD countries. He provides a great deal of up-to-date data on financing models, healthcare spending, insurance coverage, methods of organizing providers, healthcare personnel, remuneration methods for doctors and hospitals, development trajectories and recent reforms. For each of the major components of the healthcare system, the organizational models and the possible variants from which individual countries can ideally select are defined. Then, based on the organizational solutions actually adopted, the various national systems are grouped into homogeneous families. With its clear, jargon-free language and concrete examples, this is the most accessible comparative study of international healthcare arrangements available.

    • Systematically compares the healthcare systems of 27 OECD member countries
    • Written to be fully comprehensible to both experts and non-experts
    • Sets out a solid theoretical framework for analysing health systems

    Product details

    September 2021
    Hardback
    9781108477963
    250 pages
    235 × 158 × 20 mm
    0.58kg
    Available

    Table of Contents

    • 1. Seven Financing Models
    • 2. Funding Healthcare: Variants and Hybrid Systems
    • 3. Healthcare Expenditure and Insurance Coverage 4 Healthcare Provision: Integrated vs. Separated Systems
    • 5. Financing + Provision: Four families and a Few Outliers
    • 6. Hospitals, Doctors and Nurses
    • 7. Healthcare Reforms over the Last Thirty Years
    • 8. Health Politics
    • Conclusions
    • References
    • Index.
      Author
    • Federico Toth , Università degli Studi, Bologna, Italy

      Federico Toth is Full Professor of Political Science at the University of Bologna, Italy, where he teaches Organization Theory and Health Systems.