02186nam 2200373 450 991013818700332120230225134346.0(CKB)3230000000017721(NjHacI)993230000000017721(EXLCZ)99323000000001772120230225d2001 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierAn assessment of the performance of the Japanese health care system /Hyoung-Sun Jeong, Jeremy HurstParis :OECD Publishing,[2001]©20011 online resource (75 pages) illustrationsOECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers ;Number 56Includes bibliographical references.There is much interest in the Japanese health care system from the perspective of other OECD countries. The Japanese health care system appears to perform well. What explains this apparently good performance? This paper aims both to provide a description of how the Japanese health system works and an assessment of its performance in the context of an international comparison. The Japanese health care system is characterised by public health insurance with mainly private providers. Japan has universal public health insurance with coverage of a comprehensive range of services and only modest cost sharing by patients. It has mainly private providers paid mainly by fee-for-service. The share of its population that is elderly is above the OECD average. Such a combination would usually be associated with high levels of health expenditure. Yet less is spent on health care in Japan than would be expected for an OECD country with its standard of living. Cost containment seems to have been.Medical careJapanMedical care362.10952Jeong Hyoung-Sun1331371Hurst JeremyNjHacINjHaclDOCUMENT9910138187003321An assessment of the performance of the Japanese health care system3040316UNINA