Health Care Systems : A Global Survey
Contents: Preface. 1. Health care systems around the world: Introduction and overview/Himanshu Sekhar Rout. 2. On the uses of International comparisons: The U.S. Health system in comparative perspective/Victor G. Rodwin. 3. Beyond financing and payments: Problems faced by the U.S. Health care system/Steven Jonas. 4. The Australian health care system/Eileen willis. 5. The Austrian health care system/Martin Gachter and Engelbert Theurl. 6. Health care system in China/Sammy Wai Sang Chiu and Sam Wai Kam Yu. 7. Chinese Health Care System/Hongwen Li. 8. The French Health care system/Zeynep Or and Nicolas Sirven. 9. German Health system: an Overview/Boris Augurzky, Rosemarie Gulker, Arndt Reichert and Harald Tauchmann. 10. Continuities and discontinuities in post-communist healthcare systems: The cse of Hundary/Peter Mihalyi. 11. The Irish Health system/Samnatha Smith. 12. The health care system in Ireland/Padhraig Ryan and Steve Thomas. 13. Health care system in Israel/Shifra Shvars, Avigdor Kaplan, Dana Schwartz-Ilan and Revital Gross. 14. Health care system in Japan/Hiroya Ogata. 15. Health system in Korea/Hyoung-Sun Jeong. 16. Youths’ Health and Health education services in Portugal/Margarida Gaspar de Matos et al. 17. From Assistencialism to universal care: The Spanish National Health system/Rafael Munoz De Bustillo and Jose-Ignacio Anton. 18. Braxzilian National Health System/Circo Augusto Floriani. 19. Chanmges and Challenges in Brazilian Health care system/Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa Lobato, Jose Mendes Ribeiro and Jeni Vaitsman. 20. The Mexican Health care system/Nuria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde. 21. Health Care System in Pakistan/Babar Tasneem Shaikh. 22. Health Care system and health policies in Peru: Two Decades of change 1990-2009/Nancy Palomino and Ruth Iguiniz. 23. Health care system in Thailand/Thaworn Sakunphanit. 24. Health Care system in Turkey/Gulbiye Yenimahalleli Yasar and Ece Ugurluoglu. 25. Challenges of the Health care system in Bangladesh: The Unmet needs of the poor/Tania Wahed and aAbbas Bhuiya. 26. Health Care system in Ghana/Patience Aseweh Abor. 27. Haltb Care System in india/Dipti Govil and Neetu Purohit. Index.
Health care systems (HCSs) are essential for the healthy development of individuals, families and societies in accordance with human rights. HCSs are vital to establish, promote and strengthen delivery of preventive promotive and curative health services to all sections of society in a fair and equitable manner.
The present volume contains 27 well-researched papers on HCSs in different countries of the world. The distinguished contributors have direct knowledge and experience of the functioning of HCS in their respective country. The countries profiled for the purpose are US, Australia, China, France, Germany, Hungary, Ireland, Israel, Japan, South Korea, Portugal, Spain, Brazil, Mexico, Pakistan, Peru, Thailand, Turkey, Bangladesh, Ghana and India. While treatment of the subject varies from country to country depending upon the local conditions and government policies, some common features are discernible in different papers. These include (a) history and present organizational structure/management of HCS, (b) health care financing and resource utilization, (c) targeted health care programmes for poor (d) health infrastructure (e) indigenous/traditional HCS, (f) occupational health and (g) health sector reforms.
