Read the summary and the most important questions on 1.1/1.2 Healthcare Systems in Comparative Perspective

• 39 Classification, Convergence, Institutions, Inequalities and Five Missed Turns

• 39.1 Introduction

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• What are the three reasons for a health care system research

  • Accurate description
    
  • Performance assessment
  • Policy diffusion

• What should be the two central questions for comperative health care systems research (when looking at transnational, national subnational contexts)?

  • What explains the institutional variation?
    
  • What does the variation mean for the distribution of population health

• 39.2 Classifying Healthcare Systems

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• What is a Health care system (Quadagno, 2010)?

  It is an organization that both delivers care and medical services and that arrange for the financing of care.

• What are the three most popular types of health care systems?

  • The public health care system (UK)
    
  • The social health care system (Germany)
  • The private health care system (US)

• What is a new way of classification by Moran (2000)

  • The command-and-control state
    
  • The supply state
  • The corporatist state
  • The insecure command-and-control state

• How can de fincancing of health care systems be clustered?

  • The health service provision-oriented type
    
  • the universal coverage-controlled access type
  • the low budget-restricted access type

• 39.3 Convergence: New and Old

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• What is a classical reason for emerging convergence?

  Globalization

• For what reason does convergence take place in different countries?

  Countries face similar challenges to other countries, they tend to adopt similar responses.

• 39.6 Five Missed Sociological Turns

• Name three ways to incorporate sociology in health care system comparative research

  • Use the health care policy as a case of social policy (such as convergence)

  • Compare health care policy to other (distinctive) areas of social policy (for instance law)
  • Use comparative analysis of health care systems as a way to investigate broader theoretical concerns

• 39.7 The Relational Turn

• Name an example of a potential relational structure in health care comparison and why.

  Doctor-patient interaction, as it could explain SES effects in receiving treatment. This is because of the 'rules of the game'.