The Art of Balance in Health Policy : Maintaining Japan's Low-Cost, Egalitarian System (Hardcover)

Preface; 1. Low health care spending in Japan; 2. Actors, arenas, and agendas in health policy making; 3. Health care providers; 4. The egalitarian health insurance system; 5. The macropolicy of cost containment; 6. The micropolicy of cost containment; 7. The quality problem; 8. Lessons?; 9. Notes.