State and Healthcare

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"Since the 1970s the state has witnessed significant challenges to its control over social policy institutions in the arena of health care. Examining these changes in comparative perspective, this volume provides a quantitative overview of financing, regulation and service provision for 21 OECD countries, with an in-depth qualitative analysis of three cases -- the US, UK and Germany. The book argues that healthcare systems are converging towards mixed regimes and that this marks a new era in welfare state history"--

subjects: National health services,  Health Policy,  Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development,  Medical policy,  Delivery of Health Care,  State, the,  National Health Programs,  Economics,  Government Regulation,  Organizational Case Studies,  Analyse comparative,  Central government,  Comparative politics,  HEALTH & FITNESS,  Diseases,  General,  Health Care Issues,  Health systems & services,  Internationaler Vergleich,  MEDICAL,  Health Care Delivery,  Public Health,  Mitgliedsstaaten,  Öffentliches Gesundheitswesen,  Organisation de coopération et de développement économiques,  Politics and Government,  Politique sociale,  Réformes sociales,  Santé publique,  Services de santé,  Social welfare & social services