The art of balance in health policy :
Campbell, John Creighton,
The art of balance in health policy : maintaining Japan's low-cost, egalitarian system / John Creighton Campbell, Naoki Ikegami. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Low health care spending in Japan -- Actors, arenas, and agendas in health policy making -- Health care providers -- The egalitarian health insurance system -- The macropolicy of cost containment -- The micropolicy of cost containment -- The quality problem.
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.
9780511984044 (ebook)
Medical care--Finance.--Japan
Medical care--Cost control.--Japan
RA410.55.J3 / C35 1998
362.1/0952
The art of balance in health policy : maintaining Japan's low-cost, egalitarian system / John Creighton Campbell, Naoki Ikegami. - Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 1998. - 1 online resource (xi, 227 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
Low health care spending in Japan -- Actors, arenas, and agendas in health policy making -- Health care providers -- The egalitarian health insurance system -- The macropolicy of cost containment -- The micropolicy of cost containment -- The quality problem.
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.
9780511984044 (ebook)
Medical care--Finance.--Japan
Medical care--Cost control.--Japan
RA410.55.J3 / C35 1998
362.1/0952