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Comparative Health Policy and the New Right

From Rhetoric to Reality

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  • © 1991

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Editors:
  1. Christa Altenstetter

    1. The City University of New York’s, Graduate School and Queens College, USA

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  2. Stuart C. Haywood

    1. Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, UK

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiii
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  2. Introduction

    • Christa Altenstetter, Stuart C. Haywood
    Pages 1-22

  3. Liberalism in the Dirigiste State: A Changing Public — Private Mix in French Medical Care

    • Paul Godt
    Pages 23-47

  4. Health Policy and the Christian-Liberal Coalition in West Germany: The Conflicts over the Health Insurance Reform, 1987–8

    • Douglas Webber
    Pages 49-90

  5. Privatising from Within: The National Health Service under Thatcher

    • Wendy Ranade, Stuart C. Haywood
    Pages 91-110

  6. Nordic Health Policy in the 1980s

    • Richard B. Saltman
    Pages 111-128

  7. Heart Disease in Israel: Curative or Preventive Policy?

    • Yael Yishai
    Pages 129-164

  8. Two Kinds of Conservatism in US Health Policy: The Reagan Record

    • William P. Brandon
    Pages 165-206

  9. Health Policy under Conservative Governments in Canada

    • Pranlal Manga, Geoffrey R. Weller
    Pages 207-224

  10. Health Policies in the Conservative Transition to Democracy in Brazil

    • Sonia Maria Fleury Teixeira
    Pages 225-245

  11. Medical Care Security and the ‘Vitality of the Private Sector’ in Japan

    • William E. Steslicke
    Pages 247-282

  12. Conclusion: Grains Among the Chaff — Rhetoric and Reality in Comparative Health Policy

    • James W. Björkman
    Pages 283-315

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 317-332
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A compilation of essays which examine the response of the new Right to health policy issues. While economic circumstances dictate the pressures placed on policy-makers, it is argued that there is a gap between the rhetoric they espouse and the actions/initiatives taken.

Editors and Affiliations

  • The City University of New York’s, Graduate School and Queens College, USA

    Christa Altenstetter

  • Health Services Management Centre, University of Birmingham, UK

    Stuart C. Haywood

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