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050 0 0 _aMED RA394
_b.B56 2010
100 1 _aBlank, Robert H..
245 1 0 _aComparative health policy /
250 _a3rd ed.
260 _aBasingstoke, Hampshire [England] ;
_aNew York :
_bPalgrave Macmillan,
_c2010.
300 _axvii, 309 p. :
_bill. ;
505 0 _aComparative Health Policy: An Introduction -- The Context of Health Care -- Funding, Provision and Governance -- Setting Priorities and Allocating Resources -- The Medical Profession -- Beyond the Hospital: Care in the Home -- Public Health -- Understanding Health Policy Comparatively.
520 _a"This wide-ranging text assesses the extent to which policy problems and responses in different countries have common causes or spring from specific national circumstances. This fully revised third edition includes details of reforms in Germany and the Netherlands, more examples from Asia, and boxed histories of the health systems covered"--Provided by publisher.
650 0 _aMedical policy
650 0 _aSocial medicine
650 1 2 _aHealth Policy
650 2 2 _aDelivery of Health Care
650 2 2 _aHealth Services
650 2 2 _aSocioeconomic Factors.
700 1 _aBurau, Viola Desideria.
942 _cBK
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