Reforming Health Care in the United States, Germany, and South Africa (eBook)

Comparative Perspectives on Health

Susan Giaimo (Autor)

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2016
XVII, 276 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-10717-6 (ISBN)

Infos

How do nations address the above health policy goals and respond to current challenges? As these four cases (United States, Germany, Canada, and South Africa) demonstrate, the answer lies in the underlying politics of health policy at work.

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As countries confront new health care challenges in the 21st century, their health care systems reflect the problems and political settlements of an earlier age. Meeting these new challenges requires reform of existing health care system arrangements while reconciling the goals of equitable access to quality care at an affordable price. This book compares health care reforms in industrialized nations and the Global South to uncover the similarities and differences in their problems and solutions. It examines the struggle over the Affordable Care Act and its alternatives in the United States, major health care reforms in Germany in the new century, and South Africa's efforts to combat AIDS and construct a comprehensive health care system for all. These particular reforms reflect the underlying configuration of politics in each country.

Autor

Susan Giaimo is a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Departments of Political Science and Biomedical Sciences at Marquette University, USA. She was a postdoctoral fellow in the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research Program at the University of California at Berkeley, USA. She also taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, USA.

Inhalt

1. The Intersection of Health and Politics2. The United States: An Ambivalent Journey toward Universal Coverage3. Germany: Modernizing National Health Insurance to Meet New Challenges4. South Africa: Confronting the Legacies of Apartheid5. Conclusions and Prospects

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 29.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Perspectives in Comparative Politics
• Reihe/Serie: Perspectives in Comparative Politics
• Zusatzinfo: XVII, 276 p. 4 illus.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Medizin / Pharmazie ► Gesundheitswesen
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Pädagogik ► Sozialpädagogik
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Staat / Verwaltung
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Care • Democracy • Germany • Government • health policy • Nation • Policy • Politics • Work
• ISBN-10: 1-137-10717-0 / 1137107170
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-10717-6 / 9781137107176