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Record Nr.

UNINA9910969290303321

Autore

Tuohy Carolyn Hughes <1945->

Titolo

Accidental logics : the dynamics of change in the health care arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada / / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York ; , : Oxford University Press, , 2023

ISBN

0-19-773273-9

1-280-53042-1

9786610530427

0-19-535187-8

1-4294-0134-6

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (327 p.)

Collana

Oxford scholarship online

Disciplina

362.1

Soggetti

Medical policy - United States - Decision making

Medical policy - Great Britain - Decision making

Medical policy - Canada - Decision making

Medical care - United States - Finance - Decision making

Medical care - Great Britain - Finance - Decision making

Medical care - Canada - Finance - Decision making

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Previously issued in print: 1999.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; 1. Understanding the Dynamics of Change in the Health Care Arena; The Conceptual Framework: The Accidental Logics of Change in Policy Arenas; Dimensions of Decision-Making Systems: Institutional Mix and Structural Balance; Policy Episodes and System Logics; The Economics of Health Care Delivery: Agency, Risk, and Localism; The Health Policy Agenda of the 1990's; Britain, the United States, and Canada; 2. The Establishment of the Welfare State in the Health Care Arena; 3. The Reforms of the 1990's; 4. Institutions, Ideas, Interests, Actors, and the Accidents of Policy Episodes

5. The United States: The Logic of the Mixed Market6. Britain: The Logic of Corporatism Meets the Internal Market; 7. Canada: The Logic of the Single-Payer System; 8. Conclusion; Notes; References; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Looks at the USA, Britain and Canada to offer an international



comparative study of public policy systems, as well as a recent history of the evolution of each national health care system. The book explores what drives change and why certain changes occur in some nations and not in others.