Research Catalog

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Additional authors

1. Wise, David A.
2. Yashiro, Naohiro, 1946-

Description

1. ix, 258 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Series statement

1. National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Alternative title

1. Healthcare issues in the United States and Japan

Subject

1. Medical care > United States
2. Medical care > Japan

Contents

1. Evaluating Japan's health care reform of the 1990s and its efforts to cope with population aging / Naohiro Yashiro, Reiko Suzuki, and Wataru Suzuki -- U.S. medical care system for the elderly / David M. Cutler and David A. Wise -- International look at the medical care financing problem / David M. Cutler -- Removing the instability and inequity in the Japanese health insurance system / Seiritsu Ogura, Tamotsu Kadoda, and Makoto Kawamura -- Volume-outcome relationship in Japan / Koichi Kawabuchi and Shirgeru Sugihara -- Market concentration, efficiency, and quality in the Japanese homehelp industry / Yanfei Zhou and Wataru Suzuki -- Comparision of the quality of health care in the United States and Japan / Haruko Noguchi ... [et al.] -- Geography and the use of effective health care in the United States / Jonathan Skinner -- Does caregiving effect work? / Kathleen McGarry -- Conjoint analysis to estimate the demand for nicotine replacement therapy in Japan / Seiritsu Ogura ... [et al.]

Call number

1. JFE 07-300

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Title

1. Health care issues in the United States and Japan / edited by David A. Wise and Naohiro Yashiro.

Imprint

1. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.

Series

1. National Bureau of Economic Research conference report

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Connect to:

1. Contributor biographical information
2. Publisher description

Added author

1. Wise, David A.
2. Yashiro, Naohiro, 1946-

LCCN

1. 2005055904

Other standard identifier

1. 9780226902920

ISBN

1. 0226902927 (cloth : alk. paper)
2. 9780226902920 (cloth : alk. paper)

Research call number

1. JFE 07-300