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Health Care Policy Reform in America

Innovations from the States

By: Howard M. Leichter

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Health Care Policy Reform in America

Innovations from the States

By: Howard M. Leichter

This work tracks the role of the states in US health care policy reform. It reviews the challenges faced by the states in dealing with rising costs and looks at their policy competence and role in managed care, whilst focusing on the outcomes of policy reform in states such as Hawaii and Oregon.

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1315479842

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Free to Be Foolish

Politics and Health Promotion in the United States and Great Britain

By: Howard M. Leichter

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Politics and Health Promotion in the United States and Great Britain

By: Howard M. Leichter

Each of us is, to a certain extent, dangerous to his or her own health, but how far do we want the government to curb our freedom to be "foolish"? In a look at such highly charged health issues as smoking, alcohol, road safety, and AIDS, Howard Leichter analyzes the efforts of the United States and Great Britain to confront the seemingly constant tension involved with this question. Leichter contends that both governments are now paying less attention to providing access to health care and more to forcing or encouraging people to change their behavior. The result has been a transformation of health politics from a largely consensual to a largely conflictual enterprise: health promotion policies often provoke debate on issues filled with scientific uncertainties, while taking on the quality of a disagreeable moral crusade. A primary concern of this book is to account for the differences, as well as the similarities, between the two countries in their public health policies. Leichter examines, for example, why seat belt regulation flourished in the American states even when federal action was blocked while, in Britain's more concentrated political structure, similar regulation faced a tortuous political path through the Lords and Commons. Finding that the United States is more apt to use formal regulation and that Britain tends toward voluntary agreement, Leichter compares the two approaches. Neither government avoids conflict, he maintains, but regulation, despite its problems, is more effective. Originally published in 1991. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

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1400861993

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9781400861996

A Comparative Approach to Policy Analysis

Health Care Policy in Four Nations

By: Howard M. Leichter

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Health Care Policy in Four Nations

By: Howard M. Leichter

This book provides a framework for explaining why governments adopt the policies they do. In addition, it establishes a basis for comparing political systems in terms of their public policies rather than their institutions or political processes. The book begins by placing in a historical perspective the worldwide role of the state as a major provider of goods and services. Following this general background is an 'accounting scheme' that brings some semblance of order to the seemingly infinite variety of policy-relevant variables and makes the comparative study of public policy more manageable. It is suggested that any nation's public policies can be explained in terms of situational, structural, environmental and cultural factors. The second part of the book applies the accounting scheme to an increasingly specific and narrow range of public policies. The author examines one crucial area of public policy - health care - and the evolution of that policy in four diverse nations: Germany, Great Britain, the Soviet Union and Japan. The book concludes with an assessment of the prospects for an American national health care programme in the light of the experiences of these other nations.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521226481

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Free to Be Foolish

Politics and Health Promotion in the United States and Great Britain

By: Howard M. Leichter

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Health Care Policy Reform in America

Innovations from the States

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Health Care Policy Reform in America

Health Care Policy Reform in America

Free to Be Foolish

Free to Be Foolish

A Comparative Approach to Policy Analysis

A Comparative Approach to Policy Analysis

Free to Be Foolish

Free to Be Foolish

Health Care Policy Reform in America

Health Care Policy Reform in America

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