Syllabus

Textbook:

Blank, R.H. and Burau, V. (2010). Comparative Health Policy, 4rd Edition. New York: Palgrave McMillan.

Others:

Cutler, D.M. (2002), ‘Equality, efficiency, and market fundamentals: the dynamics of international medical-care reform’, Journal of Economic Literature, 40(3): 881-906

Gostin, L.O. and M. Powers.  2006. What Does Social Justice Require For The Public’s Health? Public Health Ethics And Policy Imperatives. Health Affairs, vol 25. (4): 1053-60.

Hassenteufel P. and Palier B. (2007), http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1467-9515.2007.00573.x/full in Social Policy & Administration, vol. 41, No. 6, pp. 574-596.

Jegers, Marc, Katrien Kesteloot, Diana De Graeve and Willem Gilles : A typology for provider payment systems in health care, 2002. Health Policy, 60 (3):255-273.

Magnussen J, Saltman R, Vrangb?k K and P Martinussen (2009), "The Nordic model of health care." In Magnussen J, Vrangb?k K and Saltman R (eds): Nordic health care systems. Recent reforms and current policy challenges. London. Open University Press.

Propper. C. (2012), ‘Competition, incentives and the English NHS’, Health Economics, 21(1): 33-40

Rothgang H, Cacace M, Frisina L, et al. (2010) The State and Healthcare. Comparing OECD Coutries. Chippenham: Palgrave Macmillan. Chapters 2, 3 and 4.

Schmid, A. et al. (2010) Explaining Health Care System Change: Problem Pressure and the Emergence of “Hybrid” Health Care Systems, in Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 35(4): 455-86.

Steinmo S and Watts J (1995) It’s the Institutions, Stupid! Why Comprehensive National Health Insurance Always Fails in America. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law 20(2): 329-72.

Toth, F. (2010), Healthcare policies over the last 20 years: Reforms and counter-reforms, in ?Health Policy?, vol. 95, n. 1, pp. 82-89.

Van de Ven, Wynand P. M. M. et al.  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0168851002001185, 2003. Health Policy, (65):75-98.

Van de Ven, W.P.M.M. and F.T. Schut (2008), ‘Universal mandatory health insurance in the Netherlands: a model for the United States?’, Health Affairs, 27(3): 771-781

Wilsford, D. (1994), Path Dependency, or Why History Makes It Difficult but Not Impossible to Reform Health Care Systems in a Big Way, in Journal of Public Policy, 14, 3, pp. 251-283.

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