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Health care issues in the United States and Japan

Title
Health care issues in the United States and Japan / edited by David A. Wise and Naohiro Yashiro.
Publication
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2006], ©2006.
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Additional Authors
  • Wise, David A.
  • Yashiro, Naohiro, 1946-
Description
ix, 258 pages : illustrations; 24 cm.
Series Statement
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report
Uniform Title
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report.
Alternative Title
Healthcare issues in the United States and Japan
Subjects
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Contents
1. Evaluating Japan's health care reform of the 1990s and its efforts to cope with population aging / Naohiro Yashiro, Reiko Suzuki and Wataru Suzuki -- 2. The U.S. medical care system for the elderly / David M. Cutler and David A. Wise -- 3. An international look at the medical care financing problem / David M. Cutler -- 4. Removing the instability and inequity in the Japanese health insurance system / Seiritsu Ogura, Tamotsu Kadoda and Makoto Kawamura -- 5. The volume-outcome relationship in Japan : the case of percutaneous transluminal coronary angioplasty (PTCA) volume on mortality of acute myocardial infarction (AMI) patients / Koichi Kawabuchi and Shigeru Sugihara -- 6. Market concentration, efficiency, and quality in the Japanese home help industry / Yanfei Zhou and Wataru Suzuki -- 7. A comparison of the quality of health care in the United States and Japan : treatment and outcomes for heart attack patients / Haruko Noguchi, Yuichiro Masuda, Masafumi Kuzuya, Akihiko Iguchi, Jeffery Geppert and Mark McClellan -- 8. Geography and the use of effective health care in the United States / Jonathan Skinner -- 9. Does caregiving affect work? : evidence based on prior labor force experience / Kathleen McGarry -- 10. Conjoint analysis to estimate the demand for nicotine replacement therapy in Japan / Seiritsu Ogura, Wataru Suzuki, Makoto Kawamura and Tamotsu Kadoda.
ISBN
0226902927 (cloth : alk. paper)
LCCN
  • 2005055904
  • 9780226902920
OCLC
  • ocm62421301
  • SCSB-5289971
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Columbia University Libraries