Health care issues in the United States and Japan  [electronic resource] / 
 Healthcare issues in the United States and Japan 
edited by David A. Wise and Naohiro Yashiro. 
 -  University of Chicago Press,  c2006. 
 - 1 online resource (ix, 258 p.) :  ill. 
 - National Bureau of Economic Research conference report .
 - National Bureau of Economic Research conference report. .
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and indexes. 
<br/><br/> Evaluating Japan's health care reform of the 1990s and its efforts to cope with population aging /  U.S. medical care system for the elderly /  International look at the medical care financing problem /  Removing the instability and inequity in the Japanese health insurance system /  Volume-outcome relationship in Japan /  Market concentration, efficiency, and quality in the Japanese home help industry /  Comparison of the quality of health care in the United States and Japan /  Geography and the use of effective health care in the United States /  Does caregiving affect work? /  Conjoint analysis to estimate the demand for nicotine replacement therapy in Japan /  Naohiro Yashiro, Reiko Suzuki, and Wataru Suzuki --  David M. Cutler and David A. Wise --  David M. Cutler --  Seiritsu Ogura, Tamotsu Kadoda, and Makoto Kawamura --  Koichi Kawabuchi and Shirgeru Sugihara --  Yanfei Zhou and Wataru Suzuki --  Haruko Noguchi ... [et al.] --  Jonathan Skinner --  Kathleen McGarry --  Seiritsu Ogura ... [et al.]. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780226903248 (electronic bk.) 0226903249 (electronic bk.) 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Medical care--Japan.<br/>Medical care--United States.<br/>Delivery of Health Care--Japan.<br/>Delivery of Health Care--United States.<br/>Health Care Reform--Japan.<br/>Health Care Reform--United States.<br/>Insurance, Health--Japan.<br/>Insurance, Health--United States.<br/>Quality of Health Care--Japan.<br/>Quality of Health Care--United States.<br/>HEALTH & FITNESS--Health Care Issues.<br/>MEDICAL--Public Health.<br/>MEDICAL--Health Policy.<br/>HEALTH & FITNESS--Diseases--General.<br/>MEDICAL--Diseases.<br/>MEDICAL--Health Care Delivery.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>ჯანმრთელობის დაცვა იაპონია  ჯანმრთელობის დაცვა აშშ 
<br/><br/><label>Index Terms--Genre/Form: </label><br/>Electronic books.
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>RA395.J3  / H42 2006eb 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>362.10952 
<br/><br/><label>Universal Decimal Class. No.: </label>614.2](52+73) 
<br/><br/><label>National Library of Medicine Call No.: </label>2006 N-540 W 84 JJ3  / H3 2006