Comparative health systems and policy is a wondrous intellectual and decision-making enterprise. From (to mention only a few) Kervasdoue, Kimberly, and Rodwin's The End of an Illusion (1984) by way of Anderson's The Health Services Continuum in Democratic States (1989) and Glaser's Europe's Decentralized and Semi-Private Health Insurance (1989) onto Ellencweig's Analyzing Health Systems—A Modular Approach (1992), Joe White's Competing Solutions (1995), and Saltman et al.’s Critical Challenges for Health Care Reform in Europe—ending up (so far) with Professor Dutton's book, scholars seek to solve a more-than-three-dimensional Rubik's cube of historical social processes, cultural and ideological orientations, economic exigencies and contingencies, constitutional and governance arrangements, media and rhetoric, population health status and health care outcomes, and more. The field is a spiral of reinventing and revisiting wheels, enacted in thousands of journals, books, and international meetings, all comprising an...
Beyond Medicine: Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States
David Chinitz is professor emeritus of health policy and management at Hebrew University and Hadassah in Jerusalem. His research and publications are in the areas of comparative health system reform, health care priority setting, management of cancer services, mental health policy, and the impact of quality-improvement programs at the level of frontline staff in community and hospital settings. He has consulted on behalf of the World Health Organization, and he has served as president of the International Society for Priority Setting in Health Care and chair of the Scientific Advisory Board of the European Health Management Association. He also has served on the editorial advisory boards of Health Economics, Policy, and Law and the Israel Journal of Health Policy Research.
David Chinitz; Beyond Medicine: Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States. J Health Polit Policy Law 1 February 2023; 48 (1): 121–124. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/03616878-10171132
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