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Differential Diagnoses

A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France

By: Paul V. Dutton

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Differential Diagnoses

A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France

By: Paul V. Dutton

Although the United States spends 16 percent of its gross domestic product on health care, more than 46 million people have no insurance coverage, while one in four Americans report difficulty paying for medical care. Indeed, the U.S. health care system, despite being the most expensive health care system in the world, ranked thirty-seventh in a comprehensive World Health Organization report. With health care spending only expected to increase, Americans are again debating new ideas for expanding coverage and cutting costs. According to the historian Paul V. Dutton, Americans should look to France, whose health care system captured the World Health Organization's number-one spot. In Differential Diagnoses, Dutton debunks a common misconception among Americans that European health care systems are essentially similar to each other and vastly different from U.S. health care. In fact, the Americans and the French both distrust "socialized medicine." Both peoples cherish patient choice, independent physicians, medical practice freedoms, and private insurers in a qualitatively different way than the Canadians, the British, and many others. The United States and France have struggled with the same ideals of liberty and equality, but one country followed a path that led to universal health insurance; the other embraced private insurers and has only guaranteed coverage for the elderly and the very poor. How has France reconciled the competing ideals of individual liberty and social equality to assure universal coverage while protecting patient and practitioner freedoms? What can Americans learn from the French experience, and what can the French learn from the U.S. example? Differential Diagnoses answers these questions by comparing how employers, labor unions, insurers, political groups, the state, and medical professionals have shaped their nations' health care systems from the early years of the twentieth century to the present day.

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Cornell University Press

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0801460476

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Beyond Medicine

Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States

By: Paul V. Dutton

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Beyond Medicine

Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States

By: Paul V. Dutton

In Beyond Medicine, Paul V. Dutton provides a penetrating historical analysis of why countless studies show that Americans are far less healthy than their European counterparts. Dutton argues that Europeans are healthier than Americans because beginning in the late nineteenth century European nations began construction of health systems that focused not only on medical care but the broad social determinants of health: where and how we live, work, play, and age. European leaders also created social safety nets that became integral to national economic policy. In contrast, US leaders often viewed investments to improve the social determinants of health and safety-net programs as a competing priority to economic growth. Beyond Medicine compares the US to three European social democracies—France, Germany, and Sweden—in order to explain how, in differing ways, each protects the health of infants and children, working-age adults, and the elderly. Unlike most comparative health system analyses, Dutton draws on history to find answers to our most nettlesome health policy questions.

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Cornell University Press

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1501754572

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9781501754579

Origins of the French Welfare State

The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914–1947

By: Paul V. Dutton

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Origins of the French Welfare State

The Struggle for Social Reform in France, 1914–1947

By: Paul V. Dutton

This is the first comprehensive analysis of public and private welfare in France available in English, or French, which offers a deeply-researched explanation of how France's welfare state came to be and why the French are so attached to it. The author argues that France simultaneously pursued two different paths toward universal social protection. Family welfare embraced an industrial model in which class distinctions and employer control predominated. By contrast, protection against the risks of illness, disability, maternity, and old age followed a mutual aid model of welfare. The book examines a remarkably broad cast of actors that includes workers' unions, employers, mutual leaders, the parliamentary elite, haut fonctionnaires, doctors, pronatalists, women's organizations - both social Catholic and feminist - and diverse peasant organisations. It also traces foreign influences on French social reform, particularly from Germany's former territories in Alsace-Lorraine and Britain's Beveridge Plan.

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Cambridge University Press

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1139432966

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9781139432962

Property Law

Commentary and Materials

By: Alison Clarke,Paul Kohler

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Property Law

Commentary and Materials

By: Alison Clarke,Paul Kohler

An innovative examination of the law's treatment of property, this student textbook provides an extremely useful and readable account of general property law principles. It draws on a wide range of materials on property rights in general, and the English property law system in particular, looking at all kinds of property, not just land. It includes the core legal source materials in property law along with excerpts from social science literature, legal theory, and economics, many of which are not easily accessible to law students. These materials are accompanied by a critical commentary, as well as notes, questions and suggestions for further reading. It will be of interest to undergraduate property law students and to non-law students taking property law modules in courses covering planning, environmental law, economics and estate management.

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777

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Cambridge University Press

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1139447173

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9781139447171

Disclosure

By: Paul Matthews,Hodge M. Malek

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Disclosure

By: Paul Matthews,Hodge M. Malek

This text provides detailed coverage of the new rules of disclosure. Topics covered include documentary disclosure, non-documentary disclosure and specialist jurisdictions.

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Sweet & Maxwell

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0414047796

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9780414047792

Law and the Built Environment

By: Douglas Wood,Paul Chynoweth,Julie Adshead,Jim Mason

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Law and the Built Environment

By: Douglas Wood,Paul Chynoweth,Julie Adshead,Jim Mason

Law and the Built Environment is a core textbook for all students undertaking compulsory law modules on construction, real estate and property management programmes. This single text provides an accessible introduction to the many areas of law studied by aspiring built environment professionals. Written by a team of lecturers with many years' teaching experience in these areas, key principles of English law are placed in their relevant professional context and clearly explained in exactly the right level of detail for success in the modules studied. The book also focuses in greater depth on some specialist areas of built environment professional practice, including construction contracts, health and safety, rent review, dilapidations, and lease renewals. It provides an essential resource for students studying for qualifications leading to professional membership of the Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors (RICS) or the Chartered Institute of Building (CIOB). It caters primarily for students studying these subjects at bachelor's degree level, but will also be suitable for students on programmes at HNC and HND levels, as well as those undertaking professional examinations. It will also provide introductory reading for students undertaking master's level programmes, and particularly for the increasing numbers of graduates from other disciplines who are now studying on RICS-accredited master's degree conversion programmes.

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John Wiley & Sons

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1405197609

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9781405197601

Differential Diagnoses

A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France

By: Paul V. Dutton

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A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and Solutions in the United States and France

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0801466407

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Beyond Medicine

Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States

By: Paul V. Dutton

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Why European Social Democracies Enjoy Better Health Outcomes Than the United States

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1501754580

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Differential Diagnoses

Differential Diagnoses

Beyond Medicine

Beyond Medicine

Origins of the French Welfare State

Origins of the French Welfare State

Property Law

Property Law

Disclosure

Disclosure

Law and the Built Environment

Law and the Built Environment

Differential Diagnoses

Differential Diagnoses

Beyond Medicine

Beyond Medicine

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