Health care issues in the United States and Japan [[electronic resource] /] / edited by David A. Wise and Naohiro Yashiro

• Pubblicazione: Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, c2006
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Disciplina: 362.10952
• Soggetto topico: Medical care - Japan; Medical care - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Altri autori: WiseDavid A YashiroNaohiro <1946->
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- National Bureau of Economic Research -- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Evaluating Japan's Health Care Reform of the 1990's and Its Efforts to Cope with Population Aging -- 2. The U.S. Medical Care System for the Elderly -- 3. An International Look at the Medical Care Financing Problem -- 4. Removing the Instability and Inequity in the Japanese Health Insurance System -- 5. The Volume-Outcome Relationship in Japan: The Case of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Volume on Mortality of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Patients -- 6. Market Concentration, Efficiency, and Quality in the Japanese Home Help Industry -- 7. A Comparison of the Quality of Health Care in the United States and Japan: Treatment and Outcomes for He art Attack Patients -- 8. Geography and the Use of Effective Health Care in the United States -- 9. Does Caregiving Affect Work? Evidence Based on Prior Labor Force Experience -- 10. Conjoint Analysis to Estimate the Demand for Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Japan -- Contributors -- Author Index -- Subject Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Recent data show wide disparity between Japan and the United States in the effectiveness of their health care systems. Japan spends close to the lowest percentage of its gross domestic product on health care among OECD countries, the United States spends the highest, yet life expectancies in Japan are among the world's longest. Clearly, a great deal can be learned from a comprehensive comparative analysis of health care issues in these two countries. In Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan, contributors explore the structural characteristics of the health care systems in both nations, the economic incentives underlying the systems, and how they operate in practice. Japan's system, they show, is characterized by generous insurance schemes, a lack of gatekeepers, and fee-for-service mechanisms. The United States' structure, on the other hand, is distinguished by for-profit hospitals, privatized health insurance, and managed care. But despite its relative success, an aging population and a general shift from infectious diseases to more chronic maladies are forcing the Japanese to consider a model more closely resembling that of the United States. In an age when rising health care costs and aging populations are motivating reforms throughout the world, this timely study will prove invaluable.
• Titolo autorizzato: Health care issues in the United States and Japan
• ISBN: 1-281-22409-X; 9786611224097; 0-226-90324-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910458638803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.