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Health care issues in the United States and Japan / edited by David A. Wise and Naohiro Yashiro.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: National Bureau of Economic Research conference reportPublication details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [(c)2006.]Description: 1 online resource (ix, 258 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780226903248
  • 0226903249
  • 128122409X
  • 9781281224095
Other title:
  • Healthcare issues in the United States and Japan
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • RA395.3
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Contents:
Evaluating Japan's health care reform of the 1990s and its efforts to cope with population aging / Naohiro Yashiro, Reiko Suzuki, and Wataru Suzuki -- U.S. medical care system for the elderly / David M. Cutler and David A. Wise -- International look at the medical care financing problem / David M. Cutler -- Removing the instability and inequity in the Japanese health insurance system / Seiritsu Ogura, Tamotsu Kadoda, and Makoto Kawamura -- Volume-outcome relationship in Japan / Koichi Kawabuchi and Shirgeru Sugihara -- Market concentration, efficiency, and quality in the Japanese home help industry / Yanfei Zhou and Wataru Suzuki -- Comparison of the quality of health care in the United States and Japan / Haruko Noguchi [and others] -- Geography and the use of effective health care in the United States / Jonathan Skinner -- Does caregiving affect work? / Kathleen McGarry -- Conjoint analysis to estimate the demand for nicotine replacement therapy in Japan / Seiritsu Ogura [and others.
Summary: In this book, chapters explore the structural characteristics of the health care systems in the United States and Japan, the economic incentives underlying the systems, and how they operate in practice.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Evaluating Japan's health care reform of the 1990s and its efforts to cope with population aging / Naohiro Yashiro, Reiko Suzuki, and Wataru Suzuki -- U.S. medical care system for the elderly / David M. Cutler and David A. Wise -- International look at the medical care financing problem / David M. Cutler -- Removing the instability and inequity in the Japanese health insurance system / Seiritsu Ogura, Tamotsu Kadoda, and Makoto Kawamura -- Volume-outcome relationship in Japan / Koichi Kawabuchi and Shirgeru Sugihara -- Market concentration, efficiency, and quality in the Japanese home help industry / Yanfei Zhou and Wataru Suzuki -- Comparison of the quality of health care in the United States and Japan / Haruko Noguchi [and others] -- Geography and the use of effective health care in the United States / Jonathan Skinner -- Does caregiving affect work? / Kathleen McGarry -- Conjoint analysis to estimate the demand for nicotine replacement therapy in Japan / Seiritsu Ogura [and others.

In this book, chapters explore the structural characteristics of the health care systems in the United States and Japan, the economic incentives underlying the systems, and how they operate in practice.

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