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| List of Boxes, Figures and Tables | |
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| Preface to the Second Edition | |
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| List of Abbreviations | |
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| Comparative Health Policy: An Introduction | |
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| Health care as public policy | |
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| Comparative health policy | |
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| Classifications of health care systems | |
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| Countries selected for study | |
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| Types of health care | |
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| Growing problems in health policy | |
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| Conclusions | |
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| The Context of Health Care | |
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| Institutionalist explanations: contrasting political systems | |
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| Cultural explanations: cultural/historical factors shaping health care | |
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| Functionalist explanations: population, wealth and economics | |
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| The context of health care | |
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| Funding, Provision and Governance | |
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| Comparing funding of health systems | |
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| Control of funding and pressures for reform | |
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| Health services and patient choice | |
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| Welfare mixes in the provision of health care | |
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| Models of contracting health services | |
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| Health governance between centre and locality | |
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| The authority of governments in health policy | |
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| Setting Priorities and Allocating Resources | |
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| The goals of health policy | |
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| The government and the marketplace | |
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| Allocation and rationing: the need to set priorities | |
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| Rationing and the individual | |
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| Efforts to control new technologies | |
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| Trends in priority setting | |
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| The Medical Profession | |
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| Who doctors are | |
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| Types and settings of medical practice | |
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| Reforming medical practice | |
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| Paying for medical care | |
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| The organization of doctors' interests and access to the policy process | |
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| Doctors, the state and health policy | |
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| Beyond the Hospital: Health Care in the Home | |
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| Home care statistics | |
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| Providing home health care | |
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| Funding home health care | |
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| The interface between formal and informal care | |
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| Policy trends and developments | |
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| Public Health | |
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| The individual and public health | |
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| Framing a public health policy | |
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| Public health responsibility and funding | |
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| Health promotion | |
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| Homelessness and inadequate housing | |
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| Environmental health | |
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| Public health: putting the medical model in perspective | |
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| Understanding Health Policy Comparatively | |
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| Health systems and explaining health policies | |
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| Possibilities and limitations for cross-national learning | |
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| Contribution to the comparative study of health policy | |
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| Glossary | |
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| Guide to Further Reading | |
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| Guide to Websites | |
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| Bibliography | |
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| Index | |