Reforming European Health Care States: Programmatic Actors and Policy Change

Reforming health care in seven European nations.

Reforming health care in the United States.

influenced clinical practice or public health medicine, largely because of the low statistical power associated with their small sample sizes. Better, larger scale studies are widely acknowledged to be necessary, but how are these to be conducted? Potential researchers need to be aware of methodological difficulties, and their likely solutions, and if truly informative studies are to be underta...

Reforming Health Care

Such an alarming statement has not been challenged---in fact it is even more widely accepted today. Indeed, throughout wealthy countries (Organisation for Economic Cooperation and Development) we hear the same kind of systemic problems: • many doctors are disgruntled, overworked and professionally unsatisfied; • nurses are restless and in short supply; • popular demands for more health spending...

Reforming health care in Canada: current issues.

This paper examines the current health care reform issues in Canada. The provincial health insurance plans of the 1960s and 1970s had the untoward effects of limiting the federal government's clout for cost control and of promoting a system centered on inpatient and medical care. Recently, several provincial commissions reported that the current governance structures and management processes ar...

Reforming health care: the paradoxes of cost.