Health Insurance Systems
An International Comparison
- 1st Edition - May 6, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- Author: Thomas Rice
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 0 7 2 - 5
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 1 6 2 9 4 - 1
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Request a sales quoteHealth Insurance Systems: An International Comparison offers united and synthesized information currently available only in scattered locations - if at all - to students, researchers, and policymakers. The book provides helpful contexts, so people worldwide can understand various healthcare systems. By using it as a guide to the mechanics of different healthcare systems, readers can examine existing systems as frameworks for developing their own. Case examples of countries adopting insurance characteristics from other countries enhance the critical insights offered in the book. If more information about health insurance alternatives can lead to better decisions, this guide can provide an essential service.
- Delivers fundamental insights into the different ways that countries organize their health insurance systems
- Presents ten prominent health insurance systems in one book, facilitating comparisons and contrasts, to help draw policy lessons
- Countries included are Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Japan, the Netherlands, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States
- Helps students, researchers, and policymakers searching for innovative designs by providing cases describing what countries have learned from each other
Upper-division undergraduates and graduate students working in health economics, as well as researchers and policy makers worldwide
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the author
- Part I: Overview
- Chapter 1: Introduction
- Abstract
- Acknowledgments
- The 10 countries
- Purpose and organization of the book
- Chapter 2: Key components of national health insurance systems
- Abstract
- Categorizing health insurance systems
- Key system components
- Part II: The countries
- Section A: Universal coverage systems with a single insurer
- Chapter 3: United Kingdom
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Chapter 4: Canada
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Chapter 5: Sweden
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Chapter 6: Australia
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Section B: Universal coverage systems with multiple insurers but no choice
- Chapter 7: France
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Chapter 8: Japan
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Section C: Universal coverage systems with competing insurers
- Chapter 9: Germany
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Chapter 10: Switzerland
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Chapter 11: Netherlands
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Section D: Systems without universal coverage
- Chapter 12: United States
- Abstract
- The big picture
- The details
- Part III: Cross-country comparisons
- Chapter 13: System characteristics
- Abstract
- Context
- Health system features
- Health
- Chapter 14: Equity
- Abstract
- Measuring equity
- Findings
- Interpretation of the equity findings
- Appendix: 2020 Commonwealth Fund equity results
- Chapter 15: Efficiency
- Abstract
- Measuring the efficiency of health care systems
- Findings
- Interpretation of the findings
- Chapter 16: Some insights
- Abstract
- Health care system rankings
- What can the United States learn from other countries?
- Other insights
- Final thoughts
- Glossary
- Abbreviations
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: May 6, 2021
- Imprint: Academic Press
- No. of pages: 366
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128160725
- eBook ISBN: 9780128162941
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Thomas Rice
Thomas Rice is Distinguished Professor of Health Policy and Management at the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health. A health economist, his areas of interest include international health care systems, health insurance, competition and regulation, and behavioral economics. He has also written books on health economics, the behavioral economics of health, and the U.S. health care system. Dr. Rice was previously editor of the journal, Medical Care Research and Review, and is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine. He has served as Chair of the Board of Directors of AcademyHealth, the leading U.S. organization focused on the health services and health policy research, and has chaired its Board of Directors and directed its Annual Research Meeting.
Affiliations and expertise
Distinguished Professor, Department of Health Policy and Management, UCLA Fielding School of Public Health, Los Angeles, USARead Health Insurance Systems on ScienceDirect