LEADER 02186nam 2200373 450 001 9910138187003321 005 20230225134346.0 035 $a(CKB)3230000000017721 035 $a(NjHacI)993230000000017721 035 $a(EXLCZ)993230000000017721 100 $a20230225d2001 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 13$aAn assessment of the performance of the Japanese health care system /$fHyoung-Sun Jeong, Jeremy Hurst 210 1$aParis :$cOECD Publishing,$d[2001] 210 4$dİ2001 215 $a1 online resource (75 pages) $cillustrations 225 0 $aOECD Labour Market and Social Policy Occasional Papers ;$vNumber 56 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 330 $aThere 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. 606 $aMedical care$zJapan 615 0$aMedical care 676 $a362.10952 700 $aJeong$b Hyoung-Sun$01331371 702 $aHurst$b Jeremy 801 0$bNjHacI 801 1$bNjHacl 906 $aDOCUMENT 912 $a9910138187003321 996 $aAn assessment of the performance of the Japanese health care system$93040316 997 $aUNINA