RT Book, Section
A1 Saltman, Richard B.
A2 Jameson, J. Larry
A2 Fauci, Anthony S.
A2 Kasper, Dennis L.
A2 Hauser, Stephen L.
A2 Longo, Dan L.
A2 Loscalzo, Joseph
SR Print(0)
ID 1155940909
T1 Health Care Systems in Developed Countries
T2 Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine, 20e
YR 2018
FD 2018
PB McGraw-Hill Education
PP New York, NY
SN 9781259644016
LK accessmedicine.mhmedical.com/content.aspx?aid=1155940909
RD 2024/04/25
AB Health  care  systems  are  highly  complex  organizations,  with  many  interdependent  components.  Traditionally,  health  systems  in  the  developed  world  have  been  classified  by  their  type  of  financing—i.e.,  either  predominantly  tax-funded  (such  as  the  National  Health  Service  in  England  and  publicly  operated  regional  care  systems  in  the  four  European  Nordic  countries)  or  predominantly  statutory  social  health  insurance  (SHI)-funded  (such  as  in  Germany,  the  Netherlands,  and  France).  Over  the  last  decade,  however,  there  has  been  structural  convergence  in  the  technical  characteristics  of  both  funding  arrangements,  and  also  in  the  associated  delivery  systems,  making  analytic  observations  about  the  differences  across  national  systems  more  difficult.