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Accidental logics : the dynamics of change in the health care arena in the United States, Britain, and Canada / Carolyn Hughes Tuohy.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Oxford University Press, 1999.Description: 1 online resource (xiii, 312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 1429401346
  • 9781429401340
  • 0195351878
  • 9780195351873
  • 9780195128215
  • 0195128214
  • 1280530421
  • 9781280530425
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: Print version:: Accidental logics.DDC classification:
  • 362.1 22
LOC classification:
  • RA394 .T86 1999eb
NLM classification:
  • 1999 F-915
  • WA 525
Online resources:
Contents:
Ch. 1. Understanding the dynamics of change in the health care arena -- pt. I. Episodes of policy change -- Ch. 2. The establishment of the welfare state in the health care arena -- Ch. 3. The reforms of the 1990s -- Ch. 4. Institutions, ideas, interests, actors, and the accidents of policy episodes -- pt. II. The distinctive logics of national systems -- Ch. 5. The United States: the logic of the mixed market -- Ch. 6. Britain: the logic of corporatism meets the internal market -- Ch. 7. Canada: the logic of the single-payer system -- Ch. 8. Conclusion.
Summary: Looks at the USA, Britain and Canada to offer an international comparative study of public policy systems, as well as a recent history of the evolution of each national health care system. The book explores what drives change and why certain changes occur in some nations and not in others.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-304) and index.

Ch. 1. Understanding the dynamics of change in the health care arena -- pt. I. Episodes of policy change -- Ch. 2. The establishment of the welfare state in the health care arena -- Ch. 3. The reforms of the 1990s -- Ch. 4. Institutions, ideas, interests, actors, and the accidents of policy episodes -- pt. II. The distinctive logics of national systems -- Ch. 5. The United States: the logic of the mixed market -- Ch. 6. Britain: the logic of corporatism meets the internal market -- Ch. 7. Canada: the logic of the single-payer system -- Ch. 8. Conclusion.

Looks at the USA, Britain and Canada to offer an international comparative study of public policy systems, as well as a recent history of the evolution of each national health care system. The book explores what drives change and why certain changes occur in some nations and not in others.

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