There is much interest in the Japanese health care system from the perspective of other OECD countries. The Japanese health care system appears to perform well. What explains this apparently good performance? This paper aims both to provide a description of how the Japanese health system works...

<OL><LI>Health systems in OECD countries are under pressure to improve their performance. Against that background, this paper has three main aims: <OL><LI>To compare concepts of the ‘performance’ of health care systems developed by the WHO and by the OECD, with ‘performance frameworks’ adopted in...</li></ol></li></ol>