This paper discusses the fundamental changes in the American health care system during the past four decades. By applying a multidimensional framework, the changing role of the state in financing, service provision, and in the regulation of the health care system are scrutinized. The results...

Ausgangspunkt dieses Beitrags ist die Beobachtung, dass seit Anfang der 1990er Jahre intensiv über eine Typologie von Wohlfahrtsstaaten diskutiert wird, eine theoretisch und empirisch fundierte Typologie von Gesundheitssystemen hingegen nicht existiert. In diesem Beitrag wird versucht, eine...

The present study describes and explains the changing role of the state in the Italian healthcare system since the beginning of the 1970s, with a particular focus on developments following 1978 when the healthcare system was transformed from a social insurance system into a national health...

This thesis describes the status quo of the Taiwanese health care system in the year 2000, 5 years after the reforms, analyses the economic efficiency of single components of the new health care system and searches for possible solutions to solve uncovered problems. For a better understanding of...