This paper compares health care systems. It looks beyond normal academic, political, or journalistic rhetoric, by exactly sticking to facts, i.e. empirical data (in particular data provided by the WHO) and comprehensive case study analyses. The paper finds that a number of myths and common...

Definitions of health and illness -- Public health : defining determinants of health -- Health status indicators -- Role of culture in the organization of health care systems -- Political and philosophical values that influence the US health care system -- Do we have as system? -- People who...

Organizing performance management to support high reliability healthcare / Erin S. DuPree, Mark R. Chassin -- Elimination of unintended variation in patient care / Fahmi Farah, Gary S. Kaplan -- Fundamental approaches to measuring and improving patient safety / Sarah P. Slight, David W. Bates --...

The dialogue links a portrait of health reform politics in the US from the seventies to 2008 by Ted Marmor with a comparable, parallel essay by Antonia Maioni about Canada's struggles. The pairing is also unusual in having the North Americans comment on each other's portrayal. They do not...

Prescription Drugs: Monopolies and Profits -- Hospitals : Profit First -- Physicians -- Health Plans : The Money Middlemen -- European Systems of Health-Care Delivery -- The Affordable Care Act of 2010 and Other Federal Health-Care Laws -- Emergency Departments -- The Medical Implant Device...

"From a top healthcare futurist, frontline innovator, and Deloitte consultant comes a road map to Humanizing Healthcare-hardwiring humanity at every point of care-a cultural transformation that is good for people and good for business. Without meaning to do so, the healthcare industry continues...

section 1. Introduction : setting the context -- section 2. Functional description of the U.S. health and medical care system -- section 3. Political and economic values and health care financing -- section 4. Health care reform in the United States : targeted programs and consequences.