This article makes a comparative analysis of the Japanese and Portuguese healthcare systems and draws conclusions as to how the Portuguese system may be reformed taking into account the Japanese experience. In a time of financial turmoil, where it is necessary to assure the maintenance of the ...
Health-Care Systems and Ethics: What Can We Learn? Health care systems in different countries and cultures differ and tend toreflect the particular values and, therefore, the particular socialstructure of a... EH Loewy - 《Health Care Analysis》 被引量: 17发表: 1999年 What do we know about...
Presents data from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and the World Health Organization on the performance of the health care systems in twenty-nine industrialized countries in 1998. Comparison of the performance of the United States with other industrialized countries for selected ...
Typologies have been central to the comparative turn in public policy and this paper contributes to the debate by assessing the capacity of typologies of health systems to capture the institutional context of health care and to contribute to explaining health policies across countries. Using a recent...
Health SystemsAmorim Lopes, M., Soares, C., Almeida, A., & Almada- Lobo, B. (2016). Comparing comparables: An approach to accurate cross-country comparisons of health systems for effective health-care planning and policy guidance. Health Systems, 5(3), 192-212. doi:10.1057/s41306-016-...
Strong ideological differences underlie the Canadian and American systems, making the acceptance and implementation of certain reforms difficult. The potential impact of the US Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), as well as recent Canadian health care reforms on coverage, access, cost,...
Traditional Medical Systems: TCM: Difference Metrics:Degree of Qi imbalance between different categories (e.g., Wind-Heat vs. Cold-Damp). Information Semantics:Patterns indicating specific health issues (e.g., excess Heat causing inflammation). ...
An immersion program for clinical nurse leader students: Comparing health care systems in South Korea and the United States We examine the import of a Comparative Health Care Immersion Program in South Korea to prepare entry-level Master of Science in Nursing (MSN) students stud... D Pavlic,HH...
Accreditation systems have been developed primarily in the US and Europe in an attempt to self-regulate and advance practice standards, as well as to respond to environmental pressures for advancement of healthcare quality and insulation of any commercial influence on education. Initiatives for a ...
On the Efficiency of Public and Private Health Care Systems: An Application to Alternative Health Policies in the United Kingdom This paper develops and implements a methodology for estimating the welfare effects of increasing public and private health care in the United Kingdom, when... IWH Parry...