Spring Semester, 2012
Fridays, 1:00- 3:50PM E 705 SPH
Professor Rosenau
Contact: Pauline.rosenau@uth.tmc.edu
This is a Pass/Fail course
Course Objectives: Students will be able to:
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Critically evaluate the overall effectiveness of the respective healthcare systems for 14 industrialized countries
 Assess each healthcare system’s strengths and weaknesses
 Compare the market orientation implicit in each country’s health system and assess how this influences payment for value
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Explain the recent healthcare reform efforts in each country and estimate possible lessons for the US
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Justify the policy choices of various stakeholders in the various countries
 Appraise and criticize policymakers’ actions in each of the countries
Propose the best policy practices, given the culture and the context of each country
Students will study and analyze in detail the health systems of the United States, United
Kingdom, Australia, Germany, Canada, France, Thailand, Italy, Norway, Japan,
Switzerland, Netherlands, Spain, France, and China.
Course Requirements and Evaluation
30%: Seminar Preparation and Presentation
At each class meeting at least one student (possibly more depending on enrollment) will present and play a leadership role in the discussion of a specific country. That student will organize the seminar for that week, select the readings from the bibliographies in the course syllabus (in consultation with the professor), consider the subtopics for discussion, etc. The student, working with the professor and any guest lecturer for that week’s seminar, will assign articles for the other students to read and/or present on the country being studied that week. They will prepare questions for class discussion. The rubric for grading the student’s performance on seminar organization will be distributed at the first class meeting. Please note that the articles eligible for inclusion have already been collected for each country – see the remainder of the syllabus. Links are provided where at all possible. Additions, if timely, can be made to these preliminary bibliographies – see below.
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The use of overheads and/or handouts is recommended.
30% Class participation - Attendance is required. All students are expected to read each assigned article and participate in the discussion.
The may receive additional task, assigned by the student leading that week’s seminar. Please prepare discussion questions as you will be called upon for questions as time permits each week.
40%: Term Paper – Content:
Several approaches are available: see the Rubric
A. An in depth, critical study of one country’ health care system; or,
B. A comparison of the health care system of several countries with respect to a one topic (e.g., managing pharmaceuticals, or long-term care, health system reform, etc.)
Please do not use papers or sections of papers submitted in other classes concurrently or in the past .
Deadlines: related to the term paper
January 20 th
– turn in a title and a brief description of your topic
February 3 rd
– turn in an initial bibliography
February 24 th
-turn in an outline of your paper
April 20th - turn in your paper
Websites: information about health policy in the industrialized countries
Commonwealth: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/
Kaiser Family Foundation: http://www.globalhealthfacts.org
Kaiser Family Foundation: http://www.globalhealthreporting.org
European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies: http://www.euro.who.int/observatory
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 course format, syllabus, bibliography, reading sets;
 course requirements--term paper, discussion leader responsibilities, seminar participation responsibility
 discussion leader assignments
 Slide show : http://facts.kff.org/results.aspx?view=slides&detail=43
Review introductory material before the first class at: http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im_ihs.asp?imID=1&parentID=61
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Health Care Spending in U.S. Growing More Rapidly
Than in Most Other Developed Countries, Analysis Shows http://www.kff.org/insurance/snapshot/OECD042111.cfm
The United States not only spends significantly more per capita on health care than other industrial nations, but also since 1980 has experienced one of the highest annual growth rates, a new Kaiser Family Foundation analysis shows.
Fox. “U.S. scores dead last again in healthcare study” Reuters. June 23, 2010: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/06/23/us-usa-healthcare-lastidUSTRE65M0SU20100623
Fairfield. “Health Spending vs. Results” New York Times, June 6, 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/06/06/business/metrics-health-careoutlier.html
“ Tax : Average tax burden on workers’ earnings starts to rise again, putting pressure on real after-tax pay” OECD. May 11, 2011: http://www.oecd.org/document/45/0,3746,en_21571361_44315115_47822637_1_
1_1_1,00.html
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[Suggested themes: ACA reform law, costs, insurance, quality of care, medical errors, afterhours]
The Commonwealth Fund. “The U.S. Health Care System, 2011.” 115-120. International
Profiles of Health Care, 2011, edited by Thomson, Osborn, Squires, and Read, published by the Commonwealth Fund, 2011. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2011/N ov/1562_Squires_Intl_Profiles_2011_117.pdf
READINGS:
Comparing the US and others industrialized countries on several indicators:
15. OECD Report Finds U.S. Pays More By Far For Health Care – read one of the following:
In most cases, those higher costs don't translate into better outcomes, says report comparing 34 nations.
-Reuters : Costly U.S. Health System Delivers Uneven Care: OECD
The U.S. healthcare system is more effective at delivering high costs than quality care, according to a new study that found first-rate treatment for cancer but insufficient primary care for other ailments. The study, released on Wednesday by the 34-nation Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, or
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OECD, said Americans pay more than $7,900 per person for healthcare each year -- far more than any other OECD country -- but still die earlier than their peers in the industrialized world (Morgan, 11/23).
-National Journal : For Health Care, Americans Pay More And Get Less
By every measure, the U.S. pays more for its medical system —more dollars per person, a greater percentage of GDP, and higher prices for doctors, hospitals, administrative costs, and drugs. Total health care spending costs about $8,000 per person here, compared with the second-biggest spender, Norway, which spends less than $5,500 per person. “The U.S. is just this astonishing outlier compared to everyone else,” said Mark Pearson, the head of the social policy division of the Organization for Economic
Cooperation and Development, which produced the study of 34 countries (Sanger-Katz, 11/23).
-Kaiser Health News : Report: U.S. Outspends Other Countries On Health Care
The U.S. has the best five-year survival rate for breast cancer and comes in second, behind Japan, in terms of colorectal cancer survival. But the U.S. ranks 27th in life expectancy at birth, 31st in premature mortality, and 25th in the rate of cardiovascular mortality. The U.S. has the second worst rate of adult diabetes, behind
Mexico, and has the highest rate of adult obesity, at 34 percent (Appleby, 11/23).
Krueger, P.M., Bhaloo, T., Vaillancourt Rosenau, P. Health Lifestyles in the United
States and Canada: Are We Really So Different? 2009. Social Science Quarterly,
Vol 90, No 5
Nunez Daw, C., Truong, D., Vaillancourt Rosenau, P. “Health Policy in the United
States: Consumers and Citizens in a Market Polity” in Democratizing Health.
Lofgren, H., de Leewu, E., Leahy, M. 2011. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited. pg
222-238
Krug, E.G., Powell, K.E., Dahlberg, L.L. Firearm-Related Deaths in the United States and 35 Other High- and Upper-Middle-Income Countries. 1998. International
Epidemiological Association. 27:214-221
Murray, C., Kulkarni, S., Michaud, C., Tomijima, N., Bulzacchelli, M., Iandiorio, T.,
Ezzati, M. Eitgh Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races,
Counties and Race-Counties in the United States. 2006. PLoS Med. 3(9): e260.
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.0030260
Pozen, A., Cutler, D. Medical Spending Differences in the United States and Canada: The
Role of Prices, Procedures and Administrative Expenses. 2010. Inquiry 47:124-
134.
Morra, D., Nicholson, S., Levinson, W., Gans, D., Hammons, T., Casalino, L. US
Physician Practices versus Canadians: Spending Nearly Four Times as much
Money Interacting with Payers. 2011. 30:8, pg 1-8.
DOI:10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0893
“Land of the Free, Home of the Poor” PBS Newshour Aug. 16,
2011 http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/business/july-dec11/makingsense_08-16.html
http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/46/2/38980580.pdf
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http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Issue%20Brief/2010/Jun/141
2_Anderson_measuring_US_hlt_care_sys_intl_ib.pdf
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/etc/graphs.html
http://www.amazon.com/Critical-What-About-Health-Care-
Crisis/dp/0312383010/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1229544652&sr=1-1
Review introductory material on the US health system if this is new to you: http://www.kaiseredu.org/topics_im.asp?imID=1&parentID=61&id=358 [review material for those unfamiliar with the US health sytem]
Schoen C, Osborn R, Doty MM, Bishop M, Peugh J, Murukutla N. “Toward Higher-
Performance Health Systems: Adults' Health Care Experiences in Seven Countries, “2007.
Health Affairs , 2007;26(6):w717-w734. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/26/6/w717?ijkey=btmwgHzAr9YPo&keytype=ref
&siteid=healthaff
Nolte and McKee, “Variations in Amenable Mortality- tends in 16 high-income nations”
Health Policy 2011 (online first) LINK??
Sanmartin, et al “Comparing Health and Health Care Use in Canada and the United
States” Health Affairs , vol 25, no. 4 pp0 1133+ http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/25/4/1133
Wennberg et al, “Executive Summary” Tracking the Care of Patients with Severe Chronic
Illness; The Dartmouth Atlas of Health Care 2008 www.dartmouthatlas.org http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/hlthaff.var.140v1
Floyd J. Fowler Jr, PhD; Patricia M. Gallagher, PhD; Denise L. Anthony, PhD; Kirk
Larsen, MA; Jonathan S. Skinner, PhD “Relationship Between Regional Per Capita
Medicare Expenditures and Patient Perceptions of Quality of Care” JAMA.
2008;299(20):2406-2412. http://jama.ama-assn.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/299/20/2406
Health System Reform:
Shi, Singh & Tsai. Chapter 21: The Changing U.S. Health System in Comparative Health
Systems: Global Perspectives edited by Johnson & Stoskopf, Jones and Bartlett Publishers,
2010.
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Muennig & Glied. “What Changes In Survival Rates Tell US About US Health Care” Health
Affairs. November 2010 29:11: http://www.rncasemanager.com/articles/survival_rates.pdf
Rand Health. “How Will Health Care Reform Affect Costs and Coverage?” Research
Highlights. 2011: http://www.rand.org/content/dam/rand/pubs/research_briefs/2011/RAND_RB9589.pdf
Fiscella. “Health Care Reform and Equity: Promise, Pitfalls, and Prescription” Annals of
Family Medicine. 2011. vol 9: p. 78-84: http://annfammed.org/cgi/reprint/9/1/78
Congressional Budget Office: “Key Issues in Analyzing Major Health Insurance
Proposals” December 2008; http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99xx/doc9924/12-18-KeyIssues.pdf
Cassidy, “Economics: “Which Way for Obama?” New York Review of Books, June 12 th ,
2008, vol 55, no. 10
Leonhardt, “Obamanomics,”
New York Times August 24, 2008, http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/magazine/24Obamanomicst.html?_r=1&pagewanted=print
Causes for health care costs and spending growth:
Keehan et all, “National Health Spending Projections through 2020” Health Affairs August
2011. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2011/07/27/hlthaff.2011.0662.full.pdf
Squires ( July 2011) “The U.S. Health System in Perspective: A Comparison of Twelve
Industrialized Nations
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The Commonwealth Fund This analysis concentrated on 2010
OECD health data for Australia, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Netherlands, New
Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland, the United Kingdom, and the United States. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Issue%20Brief/2011/Jul/
1532_Squires_US_hlt_sys_comparison_12_nations_intl_brief_v2.pdf
“Quality, not quantity” The Economist (print edition). June 16, 2011: http://www.economist.com/node/18836914/print
Reinhardt “Does the Aging of the Population Really Drive the Demand for Health Care”
Health Affairs, November December 2003 [ not the aging population] http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/22/6/27.pdf
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Anderson et al “Health Spending in the United States and the Rest of the Industrialized
World” Health Affairs, vol 24, no. 4, July/ August 2005 ( it’s not waiting lists or litigation] http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/24/4/903.full.pdf+html
Reinhardt “Why Does U.S. Health Care Cost So Much? (Part 1)”, “Why Does U.S. Health
Care Cost So Much? (Part 2: Indefensible Administrative Costs)”, “Why Does U.S. Health
Care Cost So Much? (Part 3: An Aging Population Isn’t the Reason)”, AND “Why Does U.S.
Health Care Cost So Much (Part 4: A Primer on Medicare)” NYT Economix; explaining the science of everyday life” November 14, November 21 st
, December 5 th
and December 12 th
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2008 – NYT Blog postings.[Its lots of things but mostly administrative costs]. http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/14/why-does-us-health-care-cost-so-much-parti/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/21/why-does-us-health-care-cost-so-much-partii-indefensible-administrative-costs/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/05/why-does-us-health-care-cost-so-much-partiii-an-aging-population-isnt-the-reason/ http://economix.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/12/12/why-does-us-health-care-cost-so-much-partiv-a-primer-on-medicare/
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Durand-Zaleski, I., Chevreul, K. “The French Health Care System, 2011.” 47-58.
International Profiles of Health Care, 2011, edited by Thomson, Osborn, Squires, and
Read, published by the Commonwealth Fund, 2011. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2011/N ov/1562_Squires_Intl_Profiles_2011_117.pdf
Bergeron, H., Nathanson, C.A. Construction of a Policy Arena: The Case of Public
Health in France, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law. 201 2 ; 37. http://jhppl.dukejournals.org/content/early/2011/10/13/03616878-1496002.full.pdf+html
Presentation of Research term paper research, SafeAssign and general library skills.
AUDIO: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91970968 all 2008
Health Care Lessons from France
France at Forefront of Free, Innovative Cancer Care
Frances Model Health Care for New Mothers
READINGS:
[Suggested themes: universal care, international comparison, system pros/cons, insurance]
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Overview:
Steffen. “The French Health Care System: Liberal Universalism” Journal of Health
Politics, Policy, and Law. Vol. 35. No. 3. June 2010 http://jhppl.dukejournals.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/35/3/353
Kobouloff-Dacremont & Baiyasi. Chapter A: France in Comparative Health Systems
Update: France, China, and Peru edited by Johnson & Stoskopf, Jones and Bartlett
Publishers, 2012.
Chevreul, et al. “France: Health System Review” Health Systems in Transition. Vol. 6. No.
12. 2010: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/135809/E94856.pdf
Welch. “Why I Prefer French Health Care” Reason Magazine. January 2010: http://reason.com/archives/2009/12/07/why-prefer-french-health-care
[please all read this introduction] Durand-Zaleski, “The Health System in France” Eurohealth
2008 vol 14, http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEHealth/pdf/eurohealth/VOL14No1/Durand-Zaleski.pdf
A “Summary and review” of this book, available at Book Reviews, JHPPL, pp 841-4
August 2008, ]
Insurance:
Rodwin, Victor, Universal Health Insurance in France; How Sustainable?
Washington DC,
Health Office; Embassy of France, 2006 available free, online at: http://wagner.nyu.edu/health/universal.pdf
Buchmueller TC, OECD Health Working Papers No. 12, Private Health Insurance in France,
Mar 2004 (ejournal) http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/35/11/30455292.pdf
Rodwin V.G., "The Health Care System Under French National Health Insurance: Lessons for Health Reform in the United States" AJPH, Vol 93 No 1, pp 31-37, Jan 2003. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/93/1/31
Gauthier-Villars. “France Fights Universal Care’s High Cost” The Wall Street Journal.
August 7, 2009: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124958049241511735.html
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Bellanger et al, “The ‘Health Benefit Basket’ in France,”
European Journal of Health
Economics 2005, supplement # 1, volume 6, pp 24-29 http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/picrender.fcgi?artid=1388081&blobtype=pdf
Comparison:
Cody. “For French, U.S. Health Debate Hard To Imagine” The Washington Post. September
23, 2009: http://www.deephousepage.com/forums/showthread.php?t=202137
Dutton, Paul Differential Diagnoses: A Comparative History of Health Care Problems and solutions in the United States and France , Cornell University Press 2007. http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1033&context=books&seiredir=1#search=%22Differential%20Diagnoses%3A%20Comparative%20History%20Health
%20Care%20Problems%20solutions%20United%20States%20France%22
Polton, “France’s public-private health care system differs from ours”
Canadian Centre for
Policy Alternatives Monitor , May 2006 , page 22 only http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/National_Office_Pubs/2006/Mending_Mediare.
pdf
Quality and Cost:
Giraud-Roufast and Chabot, “Medical Acceptance of Quality Assurance in HealthCare: The
French Experience” JAMA Dec 10, 2008, vol 300, no. 22.pp 2663+ http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/300/22/2663.full.pdf+html
Kaiser Family Foundation, “Cost Sharing for Health Care” France, Germany, and
Switzerland” January 2009 pp 1-11 http://www.kff.org/insurance/upload/7852.pdf
Gusmano, Rodwin and Weisz “A New Way to Compare Health Systems: Avoidable Hospital
Conditions in Manhattan and Paris”
Health Affairs March/April 2006 http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/25/2/510
Healy, J., The Commonwealth Fund. “The Australian Health Care System, 2011.” 13-22.
International Profiles of Health Care, 2011, edited by Thomson, Osborn, Squires, and
Read, published by the Commonwealth Fund, 2011.
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http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2011/N ov/1562_Squires_Intl_Profiles_2011_117.pdf
READINGS:
[Suggested themes: private insurance, Aussie medicare, marketing]
Overview:
[all to read executive summary and conclusion as background] Health Systems in
Transition: vol 8, no. 5, 2006, “Australia Health System: Review” http://www.euro.who.int/document/E89731.pdf
[ all to browse] Australian Government: Dept. Of Health and Aging Home Page: http://www.health.gov.au/
Taylor. “Australian PM wins health deal aimed at re-election” Reuters, April 20, 2010: http://www.reuters.com/article/2010/04/20/us-australia-politics-healthidUSTRE63J29W20100420
Lofgren, H., Leahy, M., de Leewu, E. “From Activism to State Inclusion: Health
Consumer Groups in Australia” in Democratizing Health. Lofgren, H., de Leewu, E.,
Leahy, M. 2011. Edward Elgar Publishing Limited.
Tatchell M., Tatchell R. & Tatchell T.. Chapter 10: Australia in Comparative Health
Systems: Global Perspectives edited by Johnson & Stoskopf, Jones and Bartlett Publishers,
2010.
Private Insurance:
Collins. “A Historical Perspective on Risk Equalisation for Private Health Insurance in
Australia” ACERH Research Forum. June 10, 2008: http://www.phiac.gov.au/resources/file/pcacerh.pdf
Connelly and Brown, “Lifetime Subsidies in Australian Private Health Insurance Markets with Community Rating’ paper. August 7, 2006.
Available for Purchase http://www.palgrave-journals.com/gpp/journal/v31/n4/abs/2510099a.html
Brown and Connelly, “Lifetime Cover in Private Insurance Markets” International
Journal of Health Care Finance and Economics 5, 75-88, 2005 http://www.springerlink.com.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/content/h07t3uv544457764/fu lltext.pdf
Australian Medicare System:
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Nichol, Bill “Hospitals then and now: changes since the start of Medicare,
Australian
Health Review , April 2007, vol 31 http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_6800/is_1-1_31/ai_n28444133/print?tag=artBody;col1
Gray, Gwen The Politics of Medicare, UNSW Press (January 31, 2005) & Australia
Policy Online ( www.apo.org.au
) http://www.amazon.com/Politics-Medicare-Gets-What-Briefings/dp/0868407038/sr=11-
1/qid=1165938915/ref=sr_11_1/104-7156210-4594328
Other:
Mooney. “Closing the 17 year gap means opening not just the Treasury coffers but our hearts” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Public Health. 2008. vol. 32. no. 3: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1753-6405.2008.00217.x/pdf
Mackenzie et al “Direct-to-consumers advertising under the radar: the need for realistic drugs policy in Australia”
Internal Medicine Journal , 2007, vol 37, pp 224-8 http://www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-
5994.2006.01298.x
Vitry et al, “General Correspondence “Letters to the Editor: Direct-to-consumer
Adverstising Policy in Australia: realism in whose interests?” Internal Medicine Journal,
2007. http://www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1445-
5994.2007.01447.x
Morgan, et al , Centralized drug Review Processes in Australia, Canada, New Zealnd, and the United Kingdom, Health Affairs, vol 25, No. 2 2006 http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/25/2/337
Scott, “Pay for Performance in health care: strategic issues for Australian experiments”
MJA 187: No. 1, 2 july 2007. http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_01_020707/sco10109_fm.html
Armstrong., et al “Federal Election 2007; Challenges in Health and Health Care for
Australia”
The Medical Journal of Australia vol 187, # 9, 5- November 2007, pp 485-
489 http://www.mja.com.au/public/issues/187_09_051107/arm11047_fm.html
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Harrison, A., Gregory, S., Mundle, C., Boyle, S. “The English Health Care System,
2011.” 40-46.
International Profiles of Health Care, 2011, edited by Thomson, Osborn,
Squires, and Read, published by the Commonwealth Fund, 2011.
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http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2011/N ov/1562_Squires_Intl_Profiles_2011_117.pdf
VIDEO:
“United Kingdom” Sick around the World – 10 minutes http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/sickaroundtheworld/themes/lessons.html
AUDIO: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91971293 all 2008
Denied Treatment; U.K. Vet Stands Up for Liberty
MS Patient Falls into American Insurance Gap
Britain Weighs the Social Cost of “Wonder Drugs”
READINGS:
[Suggested themes: primary care, health reform, technology, quality and-performance]
General Introduction:
Jones, K., Baggott, R. “Health consumer groups in the United Kingdom: progress or stagnation?” in Democratizing Health. Lofgren, H., de Leewu, E., Leahy, M. 2011. Edward
Elgar Publishing Limited. pg 30-46
Ramesh, R. NHS Among developed World’s Most Efficient Health Systems, says study.
Guardian UK. August 7, 2011.
Oliver, A., Brown, L. Incentivizing Professionals and Patients: A Consideration in the
Context of the United Kingdom and the United States. 2011. Journal of Health Politics,
Policy and Law. Vol. 36, No. 1, Pg 59-87. DOI: 10.1215/03616878-1191108
Lopes, Jr., Coppola & Riste. Chapter 5: United Kingdom in Comparative Health Systems:
Global Perspectives edited by Johnson & Stoskopf, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010.
Boyle. “United Kingdom (England): Health System Review” Health Systems in
Transition. vol. 13. no. 1. 2011: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/135148/e94836.pdf
Smith, P. & Goddard M. (2009). The English National Health Service: An Economic
Health Check . Retrieved from http://www.olis.oecd.org/olis/2009doc.nsf/linkto/ecowkp(2009)58
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Whalen, “UK. Panel Balks at Drug Payments; Agency says government shouldn't pay for higher-priced Novartis, Bristol-Myers medications” May 5 ,2011 WSJ
Reform:
Ham, C. Competition in the NHS in England: Debate About Commissioning Detracts from the Radical Extension of Market Principles in the Health and Social Care Bill. British
Medical Journal. 2011. Vol 342. Pg 395-396. doi:10.1136/bmj.d1035
Light & Connor. “Reflecting on commissioning and the English coalition government NHS reforms” Social Science and Medicine 72 (2011) 821-822.: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6VBF-528YXDB-3-
1&_cdi=5925&_user=5675017&_pii=S0277953611000943&_origin=&_coverDate=03%2F
31%2F2011&_sk=999279993&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzWzSkWb&md5=6e0c913039129c3ee99645c889f1d5f6&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
Gray, “England’s Approach to Improving End-of-Life Care: A strategy for Honoring
Patients’ Choices July 2011, Commonwealth Fund’s Issue in International health Policy http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Issue%20Brief/2011/Jul/
1527_Gray_Englands_approach_endoflife_care_intl_brief.pdf
Mountford and Davie. “Toward an Outcomes-Based Health Care System: A View From the
United Kingdom” JAMA. December 1, 2010 – vol. 304, no. 21: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/304/21/2407.full.pdf+html
Campbell. “Doctors warned to expect unrest over NHS reforms” guardian.co.uk. November
19, 2010: http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/nov/19/doctors-warned-expect-unrest-reforms
Is Choice Working for Patients in the English NHS; BMJ, 16- August – 2008, vol. 337; pp365-366 http://www.bmj.com.ezproxyhost.library.tmc.edu/content/337/7666/Editorials.full.pdf
Ham, What to Do with Insolvent Hospitals: Will Politicians Allow Providers to Fail? BMJ,
2007, 335: 170 http://www.bmj.com/content/335/7612/170.full.pdf
Propper et al 2007 “Did ‘Targets and Terror’ Reduce Waiting Times in England for Hospital
Care?”
The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, vol 8, issue 2, 25pp. http://www.bristol.ac.uk/cmpo/publications/papers/2007/wp179.pdf
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Bevan and Robinson, “The Interplay between Economic and Political Logics: Path
Dependency in Health Care in England” JHPPL, vol 30, nos.1-2, 2005. http://jhppl.dukejournals.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/30/1-2/53
Light, Donald, “Will the NHS Strategic Plan Benefit Patients?”BMJ 26 July 2008, vol 337 pp 210 –+ http://www.bmj.com.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/section_pdf/337/jul17_1/a838.pdf?ma
xtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=A+Transatlantic+Review+of
+the+NHS+at+60&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
Berwick, “A Transatlantic Review of the NHS at 60” BMJ 26 July 2008, vol 337 and several related articles on the NHS on this occasion ( includes special issue articles from 26 April
2008) http://www.bmj.com.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/section_pdf/337/jul17_1/a838.pdf?ma
xtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=A+Transatlantic+Review+of
+the+NHS+at+60&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
Maynard and Street “Health Service Reform: Seven Years of Feast, Seven Years of Famine: boom to bust in the NHS?”
BMJ 2006: 332, p 906-8 http://www.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/332/7546/906
Quality and-performance:
Mundy. “Care homes rivals circle Southern Cross” Financial Times, June 1, 2011: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/1e3b2a8c-8c8b-11e0-883f-00144feab49a.html#axzz1Q7yDSsuX
Schlander, “The Use of Cost-Effectiveness by the National Institute for Health and Clinical
Excellence (NICE) not yet an exemplar of a deliberative process.” J. Med. Ethics, 2008, vol
34 pp 534-539 http://jme.bmj.com/cgi/reprint/34/7/534
Galvin, Robert “Pay-For -Performance: Too Much of A good Thing?”
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September 2006 and rejoinder October 26, 2006. http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/25/5/w412.full.pdf+html
Pearson and Rawlins, “Quality, Innovation, and Value for Money” JAMA November 23/30
2005 (294: 20). http://jama.amaassn.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/294/20/2618?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits
=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Quality%2C+Innovation%2C+and+Value+for+Money
&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
Technology:
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The Commonweath Fund. “International Survey of Primary Care Physicians in 11
Countries Reveals U.S. Lagging in Access, Quality, and Use of Health Information
Technology; Underscores Urgent Need For National Health Reform”: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/News/News%20Releases/2009/Nov/P ress%20Release%20IHP%202009.pdf
Cheng. “Nice approach” (comparative effectiveness and Rx prices). Financial Times.
September 15, 2009: http://www.ft.com/intl/cms/s/0/5be67610-9ce2-11de-ab58-00144feabdc0.html
Anderson, Frogner, Johns & Reinhardt, “Health Care Spending and Use of Information
Technology in OECD Countries”
Health Affairs May/June 2006 http://www.commonwealthfund.org/usr_doc/Anderson_hltcarespendinfotechOECD_itl.p
df?section=4039
Chantler, et al “Information Technology in the English National Health Service” JAMA,
November 8, 2006 (296, #18) http://jama.amaassn.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/296/18/2255?maxtoshow=&HITS=10& hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Information+Technology+in+the+English+Nati onal+Health+Service&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
Comparative Health Politics: The US and the UK
Sparer, France, & Clinton. “Inching toward Incrementalism: Federalism, Devolution, and
Health Policy in the United States and the United Kingdom.” JHPPL. Volume 36.
Number 1. February 2011: http://jhppl.dukejournals.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/36/1/33
Gusmano & Allin. “Health Care for Older Persons in England and the United States: A
Contrast of Systems and Values.” JHPPL. Volume 36. Number 1. February 2011: http://jhppl.dukejournals.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/36/1/89
Sampat & Drummond. “Another Special Relationship? Interactions between Health
Technology Policies and Health Care Systems in the United States and the United
Kingdom.” JHPPL. Volume 36. Number 1. February 2011: http://jhppl.dukejournals.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/36/1/119
Bevan & Janus. “Why Hasn’t Integrated Health Care Developed Widely in the United
States and Not at All in England?” JHPPL. Volume 36. Number 1. February 2011: http://jhppl.dukejournals.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/36/1/141
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Lindahl, A.K., Squires, D. “The Norwegian Health Care System, 2011.” 94-100.
International Profiles of Health Care, 2011, edited by Thomson, Osborn, Squires, and
Read, published by the Commonwealth Fund, 2011. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2011/N ov/1562_Squires_Intl_Profiles_2011_117.pdf
Frode F. Jacobsen & Tone Elin Mekki “ Health and the Changing Welfare State in
Norway: A Focus on Municipal Health Care for Elderly Sick” 2011 Ageing Int
DOI 10.1007/s12126-010-9099-3
Johnsen, Jan Roth, Norway, 2006, HIT, published by WHO and the European
Observatory on health Systems and Policies. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0005/95144/E88821.pdf
HiT Summary for Norway, 2006 , published by WHO and the European Observatory on health Systems and Policies. http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0011/98867/E88821sum.pdf
Karlsson and Iversen, “Scandinavian long-term care financing” 2010 http://www.med.uio.no/helsam/forskning/nettverk/hero/publikasjoner/skriftserie/2010/20
10_2.pdf
OECD. Health: Spending Continues to outpace Economic Growth in Most OECD
Countries. June 30, 2011.
Handout. Domhoff, G.W. 2011. Wealth, Income and Power from http://sociology.ucsc.edu/whorulesamerica/power/wealth.html
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Allin, S., Watson, D., The Commonwealth Fund. “The Canadian Health Care System,
2011.” 23-33.
International Profiles of Health Care, 2011, edited by Thomson, Osborn,
Squires, and Read, published by the Commonwealth Fund, 2011. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2011/N ov/1562_Squires_Intl_Profiles_2011_117.pdf
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[Suggested themes: US views of the Canadian health system, waiting lists, private care in
Canada, long term care, aging]
READINGS:
Background and General Introduction:
Church, J., Armstrong, A. “Health Consumers in Canada: Swimming Against a Neo-Liberal
Tide” in Democratizing Health. Lofgren, H., de Leewu, E., Leahy, M. 2011. Edward Elgar
Publishing Limited. pg 193-207
Reinhardt, U. Keeping Health Care Afloat: The United States versus Canada. 2007. The
Milken Institute Review. Pg 36-43
Michelle Andrews, Aug 3, 2011, “ Getting Up Close And Personal With Emergency
Care, Canadian Style Topics: Health Costs, Insurance, Marketplace, Delivery of Care,
Hospitals, Quality” Kaiser health news ;
In her latest Kaiser Health News consumer column Michelle Andrews writes: "It had been a gorgeous day of cycling the rolling hills of Quebec's Eastern Townships. I wasn't traveling very fast when I hit a patch of gravel on the trail, but I went flying, landing hard on my left side. ... As my two friends propped me up and tried to identify our location for the 911 dispatcher, I awaited my first real-life encounter with the mostly government-funded Canadian health-care system" (Andrews, 8/2). Read the column. http://www.kaiserhealthnews.org/Features/Insuring-Your-Health/Michelle-Andrews-on-
ER-Care-Canadian-Style.aspx
Duncan, Morris & McCarey. Chapter 4: Canada in Comparative Health Systems: Global
Perspectives edited by Johnson & Stoskopf, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010.
Blankenau. “The Fate of National Health Insurance in Canada and the United States: A
Multiple Streams Explanation” Policy Studies Journal, Vol. 29, No. 1, 2001 (38-55): http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1541-0072.2001.tb02073.x/pdf
Hudson. “Fast Facts: When Will They Ever Learn?” Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
October 12, 2010: http://www.policyalternatives.ca/publications/commentary/fast-facts-when-will-they-everlearn
“Health Services and Policy Research Capacity Building in Canada” Institute on
Governance. July, 2010: http://iog.ca/sites/iog/files/IHSPR%20Capacity%20Building%20Report.pdf
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Rosser, et. al. “Patient-Centered Medical Homes in Ontario” NEJM online. January 6, 2010: http://healthpolicyandreform.nejm.org/?p=2612
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, “Myth: Canadian doctors are leaving for the
United States” 2008 update http://www.chsrf.ca/mythbusters/html/myth29_e.php
Katz, S., Cardiff, K., Pascali, M., Barer, P. & Evans, R. Phantoms in the Snow: Canadians'
Use of Health Care Services in the United States. Health Affairs , May/June 2002, 21(3)19-
31. http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/21/3/19.pdf
Schoen, et al, “In Chronic Conditions: Experiences of Patients with Complex Health Care
Needs , In Eight Countries, November 2008 Health Affairs - Web Exclusive, 13
November 2008 (summary to focus on the Canadian case in context) http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/abstract/hlthaff.28.1.w1?ijkey=cOSQSi1j6fDl o&keytype=ref&siteid=healthaff
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation, “In Healthcare, More Is Always Better” http://www.chsrf.ca/mythbusters/html/myth30_e.php
Private Health Care in Canada:
McGregor & Ronald. “Residential Long-Term Care for Canadian Seniors: Nonprofit, For-
Profit or Does It Matter?” IRPP Study, No. 14, January 2011: http://www.irpp.org/pubs/IRPPstudy/2011/IRPP_Study_no1.pdf
Palley, et al, “ The Development of Public/Private sector Relationships in the Canadian
Federal/Provincial Health Care Systems” paper delivered at the IPSA Regional Meeting of
RC 25, Comparative Health Care, The Hague, The Netherlands, 10-12 November 2008 (this paper will be handed out prior to the class)
Angell “Privatizing health care is not the answer: lessons from the United States” CMAJ
October 21, 2008, vol 179, no 9 ; http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/reprint/179/9/916
Lee, Marc “How Sustainable is Medicare? A Closer Look at Aging, Technology and
Other Cost Drivers in Canada’s Health Care System” (Canada’s Universal Health System is called Medicare) Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, report, September 2007. http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/National_Office_Pubs/2007/How_Sustainab le_is_Medicare.pdf
Duffin. “The Impact of Single-Payer Health Care on Physician Income in Canada, 1850-
2005” American Journal of Public Health. July 2011, Vol. 101, No. 7.
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Physician remuneration in OECD countries - compare to Canada
OECD physician remuneration.pdf
Waiting for health care:
Saunders and Rogers, “The Taming of the Queue V: In Search of Excellence” CPRN
Research Report, June 2008 http://www.cprn.org/documents/50244_EN.pdf
Willcox et al, “Measuring and Reducing Waiting Times; A Cross-National Comparison of
Strategies” Health Affairs, July/August 2007, http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/26/4/1078?maxtoshow=&HITS=10&hits=10&RE
SULTFORMAT=&author1=willcox&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=
0&resourcetype=HWCIT
Rachlis, “Public Solutions to Health Care Wait Lists” Canadian Centre for Policy
Alternatives, December 2005 http://www.policyalternatives.ca/documents/National_Office_Pubs/2005/Health_Care_Waitli sts.pdf
Canadian Health Services Research Foundation (CHRS) “Manage Waits Centrally” March
2008 and please see the references linked at the end of the article at http://www.chsrf.ca/mythbusters/html/boost13_e.php
Schoen et al “Taking the Pulse of Health Care Systems: Experiences of Patients with Health
Problems in Six Countries”
Health Affairs, 11/3/2005 http://www.commonwealthfund.org/usr_doc/870_Schoen_pulse_HA_itl.pdf?section=4039
Pharmacy:
Sood et. al. “The Effect Of Regulation On Pharmaceutical Revenues: Experience In
Nineteen Countries” Health Affairs 28, no. 1 (2009): http://www.rand.org/pubs/reprints/2009/RAND_RP1381.pdf
Morgan et al "Outcomes-Based Drug Coverage in British Columbia” Health Affairs,
2004 pp 269-76 http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/reprint/23/3/269?
Pomey et. al. “Do Provincial Drug Benefit Initiatives Create an Effective Policy Lab?
The Evidence from Canada”. Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law , Vol. 35, No. 5,
October 2010: http://jhppl.dukejournals.org/cgi/reprint/35/5/705
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US perspective on the Canadian health system:
Starfield. “Reinventing Primary Care: Lessons from Canada for the United States” Health
Affairs, 29, no. 5 (2010): 1030-1036: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/5/1030.full.pdf+html
Sessions & Detsky. “Washington, Ottawa, and Health Care Reform: A Tale of 2 Capitals”
JAMA, May 26, 2010 – Vol 303, No. 20: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/303/20/2078.full.pdf+html
Rosenau, “U.S. Newspaper Coverage of the Canadian Health System” The American Review of Canadian Studies, 2006; www.prosenau.com
http://www.sph.uth.tmc.edu/uploadedFiles/Divisions/MPCH/Faculty_web_sites/Rosenau/Ca nadianHealthSystem2.pdf
Long-term care:
Burnett, Sean “ Financing the Health Care System: Is Long-term Sustainability Possible?”
CCPA November 2008 http://www.policyalternatives.ca/~ASSETS/DOCUMENT/Saskatchewan_Pubs/2008/F inancing_Health_Care_Dec_11.pdf
Saltman et al. “THE IMPACT OF AGING ON LONG-TERM CARE IN EUROPE AND
SOME POTENTIAL POLICY RESPONSES” International Survey of Social and Health
Policy, Volume 36, Number 4, pages 719-746, 2006:
Int_Jour_Health_Serv_LTC_article1.pdf
Help Wanted! Providing and Paying for Long Term Care. Chapter 7
OECD 2011_ch 7 - public LTC financing arrangements in OECD countries.pdf
OECD, 2011_ch 7 - public LTC financing arrangements in OECD countries.pdf
Richard B. Saltman, Hans F. W. Dubois, and Mukesh Chawla “ T HE IMPACT OF AGING ON
LONG-TERM CARE IN EUROPE AND SOME POTENTIAL POLICY RESPONSES,”
2006 – compare Canada to Europe International Journal of Health Services, Volume 36,
Number 4, Pages 719–746, 2006
© 2006, Baywood Publishing Co., Inc.
Busse, R., Blümel, M., Stock, S. “The German Health Care System, 2011.” 59-66.
International Profiles of Health Care, 2011, edited by Thomson, Osborn, Squires, and
Read, published by the Commonwealth Fund, 2011.
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READINGS:
[Suggested themes: reform, politics]
German Health System: An introduction http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02p101&continuous=1
Germany: National Public Radio special: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91971170
Keeping German Doctors On A Budget Lowers Costs, July 2, 2008 · Nearly every
German has ready access to doctors, cheap drugs, high-tech medicine, dental care, nursing homes and home care. All this — and Germany spends half what the United
States does per person.
One way the country accomplishes this is by putting doctors on a budget.
Stock,” German Diabetes Management Programs Improve Quality Of Care And Curb
Costs”
Health Aff December 2010 29:122197-2205; doi:10.1377/hlthaff.2009.0799 http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/12/2197.full.pdf+html
Geissler, J. “Health Policy in Germany: Consumer Groups in a Corporatist Polity” in
Democratizing Health. Lofgren, H., de Leewu, E., Leahy, M. 2011. Edward Elgar
Publishing Limited. pp 127-142
Laugesen, M., Glied, S. Higher Fees Paid to US Physicians Drive Higher Spending for
Physician Services Compared to other Countries. 2011. Health Affairs. 30:9, pg 1647-
1656. doi: 10.1377/hlthaff.2010.0204
Leith, Knott, Mayer & Westermann. Chapter 8: Germany in Comparative Health Systems:
Global Perspectives edited by Johnson & Stoskopf, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010
Thomas. “Germany Dilutes Health-Care Reforms” The Wall Street Journal, July 6, 2010: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704862404575350683343738758.html
Wiesmann. “German health reformers face political pitfalls” Financial Times, August 17,
2010: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d0ef3c12-a961-11df-a6f2-00144feabdc0,dwp_uuid=ce5d915c-
2037-11dd-80b4-000077b07658.html#axzz1PZ2bVGHj
Fuhrmans. “Germany Strains to Fund Health Care for All” The Wall Street Journal,
November 18, 2009: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125849684108252695.html
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McGroarty & Thomas. “Health Care Divides New German Coalition” The Wall Street
Journal, October 8, 2009: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125495456609471843.html
Busee, Nimptsch, & Mansky. “Measuring, Monitoring, And Managing Quality in Germany’s
Hospitals” Health Affairs, January 27, 2009: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/early/2009/01/27/hlthaff.28.2.w294.full.pdf
Busse R, Riesberg A. Health care systems in transition: Germany. Copenhagen,WHO
Regional Office for Europe on behalf of the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies, 2004: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0018/80703/E85472.pdf
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Camenzind, P., Squires, D. “The Swiss Health Care System, 2011.” 108-114.
International Profiles of Health Care, 2011, edited by Thomson, Osborn, Squires, and
Read, published by the Commonwealth Fund, 2011. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2011/N ov/1562_Squires_Intl_Profiles_2011_117.pdf
OECD Reviews of Health Systems: Switzerland 2011
OECD, World Health Organization Organization for Economic Cooperation and
Development (OECD) (must be purchased). http://www.keepeek.com/Digital-Asset-Management/oecd/social-issues-migrationhealth/oecd-reviews-of-health-systems-switzerland-2011_9789264120914-en http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?sf1=identifiers&st1=9789264120907
AUDIO :
“Switzerland, A Health Care Model For America?” http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91974014
In Switzerland, A Health Care Model for America
In Switzerland, An Easier Path for the Disabled
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Switzerland: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/video/flv/generic.html?s=frol02p101&continu ous=1
VIDEO: http://frontrow.bc.edu/program/degeest/
POWER POINT:
Gaudenz Silberschmidt, Swiss Federal Office of Public Health, “Coverage and Financing –
Sharing the Burden; The Swiss Experience” from the AARP Health Care ’08 Global Trends
& Best Practices. http://www.aarpinternational.org/usr_attach/healthcare08_Silberschmidt_coverageandfinance.pdf
READINGS:
[Suggested themes: Model for US, international comparison]
Comparison:
Schwartz. “Swiss Health Care Thrives Without Public Opinion” The New York Times.
October 1, 2009: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/01/health/policy/01swiss.html
Frank & Lamiraud. “Choice, price competition and complexity in markets for health insurance” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71 (2009) 550-562: http://www.hec.unil.ch/deep/evenements/Brownbag-papers/2005-06/Frank-mai06.pdf
Rovner. “In Switzerland, A Health Care Model For America?” NPR. July 18, 2008: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=92106731
Leu, Robert E., Frans Rutten, Werner Brouwer, Matter, and Rutschi. 2008. A Tale of Two
Systems; The Swiss and the Dutch Health Care Systems Compared, This book is on reserve at the library. There is a 40 page summary was published by the Commonwealth
Fund January 2009 at: http://www.commonwealthfund.org/usr_doc/Leu_swissdutchhltinssystems_1220.pdf?sec
tion=4039
Kaiser Family Foundation, “Cost Sharing for Health Care” France, Germany, and
Switzerland” January 2009 pp 16-20
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Other:
Switzerland, OECD Reviews of Health System, OECD (WHO) 2006 , chaps 1 and 4
(PDF are avaialbe ), the book is on reserve at the SPH library for the course, and you may purchase for $18 from OECD: http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?lang=en&sf1=DI&st1=5L9T3LFC5WXR to be updated in oct. 2011 http://www.oecdbookshop.org/oecd/display.asp?K=5KG884388WF3&sf1=Title&st1=sw itzerland&st2=not+Proceedings+or+workshop+or+meeting&sf2=Title&st3=not+E4+or+
E5+or+P5&sf3=SubVersionCode&sf4=LanguageCode&st4=EN&sort=sort_date/d&ds=s witzerland&lang=en&m=2&dc=79&plang=en
Swiss Health Foreign Policy: Agreements on health foreign policy objectives, October
2006; www.bag.admin.ch/org/01044/index.html?lang=en&download=M3wBPgDB/.../bKbXrZ
6lhuDZz8mMps2gpKf o
Reinhardt, “The Swiss Health System: Regulated Competition without Managed Care”
JAMA, Sept 8 2004 http://jama.amaassn.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/292/10/1227?maxtoshow=&HITS=10& hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=The+Swiss+Health+System%3A+Regulated+C ompetition+without+Managed+Care&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HW
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Herzlinger, “Consumer-Driven Health Care” JAMA September 8, 2004 http://jama.amaassn.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/292/10/1213?maxtoshow=&HITS=10& hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=Consumer-
Driven+Health+Care&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
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FORMAT:
1) Case studies presented by Professor Delclos.
2) a student's presentations of some articles
3) Comments by Dr. Delclos & general discussion
READINGS:
[Suggested themes: inequalities and disparities of the system)
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General:
Garcia-Amesto, et. al. “Spain: Health System Review” Health Systems in Transition.
Vol. 12. No. 4. 2010: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0004/128830/e94549.pdf
Borkan, et. al. “Renewing Primary Care: Lessons Learned from the Spanish Health Care
System” Health Affairs, 29, no. 8 (2010): 1432-1441: http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/8/1432.full.pdf+html
Lluch & Kanavos. “Impact of regulation of Community Pharmacies on efficiency, access and equity. Evidence from the UK and Spain” Health Policy 95 (2010) 245-254: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=MImg&_imagekey=B6V8X-4Y3KV0M-1-
1&_cdi=5882&_user=5675017&_pii=S0168851009002875&_origin=&_coverDate=05
%2F31%2F2010&_sk=999049997&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzWzSkWl&md5=7f6ae704d486861d5321440881188881&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
Inequalities in the Health System:
Regidor et al, “Decreasing Socioeconomic Inequality and Increasing Health Inequalities in Spain: A Case Study” American Journal of Public Health , January 2006, pp 102-108 student to report on this article. http://www.ajph.org/cgi/reprint/96/1/102
Costa-Font and Gil “Exploring the Pathways of Inequality in Health, Access and
Financing in Decentralised Spain, The London School of Economics and Political
Science; LSE Health, May 2008, Working paper no. 9/2007 http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/LSEHealth/pdf/LSEHealthworkingpaperseries/LSEHW
P9.pdf
( Please use this as a resource article and as a supplement to the article by
Regidor et al)
[Suggested themes: delivery, health system reform, systematic issues and shortcomings]
Weiyan Jian, et al, “ China’s Rural-Urban Care Gap Shrank For Chronic Disease
Patients, But Inequities Persist” Health Aff December 2010 29:122189-2196; http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/29/12/2189.full.pdf+html
Xu et. al. Chapter B: China in Comparative Health Systems Update: France, China, and
Peru edited by Johnson & Stoskopf, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2012.
LaFraniere. “Chinese Hospitals are Battlegrounds of Discontent” The New York Times.
August 11, 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/world/asia/12hospital.html
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Dyer. “Sickness of the savers” Financial Times. May 13, 2009: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/2c470974-3f22-11de-ae4f-00144feabdc0.html#axzz1PqsY1RlT
Ho & Gostin. “The Social Face of Economic Growth: China’s Health System in Transition”
JAMA, May 6, 2009 – Vol 301, No. 17: http://jama.ama-assn.org/content/301/17/1809.full.pdf+html
Mufson. “In China, too, a health-care system in disarray” The Washington Post. October 29,
2009. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/28/AR2009102805081.html
Hsiao. “When Incentives and Professionalism Collide” Health Affairs 27, no. 4 (2008): http://content.healthaffairs.org/content/27/4/949.full.pdf+html
Yip, Winnie, “The Chinese Health System at a Crossroads” Health Affairs March/April 2008 http://content.healthaffairs.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/27/2/460?maxtoshow
=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=The+Chinese+Health+System+at+a+
Crossroads&andorexactfulltext=and&searchid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
Ma, Lu, and Quan “From a National, Centrally Planned Health System to a System Based on the Market: Lessons from China” Health Affairs, July/August 2008 p 937+ http://content.healthaffairs.org.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/cgi/reprint/27/4/937?maxtoshow
=&HITS=10&hits=10&RESULTFORMAT=&fulltext=From+a+National%2C+Centrally+Pl anned+Health+System+to+a+System+Based+on+the+Market&andorexactfulltext=and&sear chid=1&FIRSTINDEX=0&resourcetype=HWCIT
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Zamiska “China thinks Small in Prescription for Health Care; Primary-Care Clinics to become First Stop in Revitalizing System ” WSJ March 11 2008 http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120520609104526563.html?mod=health_home_stories
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Donatini, A., Romagna, E., Reed, S.J., Squires, D. “The Italian Health Care System,
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Cappellaro & Longo. “Institutional public private partnerships for core health services: evidence from Italy” BMC Public Health 2011, 11:82: http://www.biomedcentral.com.www5.sph.uth.tmc.edu:2048/content/pdf/1472-6963-11-
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Westert, G., Klazinga, N. “The Dutch Health Care System, 2011.” 80-87. International
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VIDEO/AUDIO:
National Public Radio’s Netherlands: Health Care for All by Patti Neighmond
AUDIO: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91973552
Netherlands’ Health Care Reflects National Values
After-Hours Doctor Calls Save Holland Money
In the U.S. and Holland, Diabetes Looks Different
[Suggested themes: health system reform, privatization of health insurance, after hours health care, cost containment, competition]
Overview:
Schipaanboord, A., Delnoji, D., Roland, B. “Patient Empowerment in the Netherlands” in
Democratizing Health. Lofgren, H., de Leewu, E., Leahy, M. 2011. Edward Elgar
Publishing Limited. pp 111-126
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Vol. 12 No. 1 2010: http://www.euro.who.int/__data/assets/pdf_file/0008/85391/E93667.pdf
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Institute for Public Health and the Environment,) Centre for Prevention and Health
Services Research, Public Health and Health Services Division: Bilthoven. 240. http://www.rivm.nl/vtv/object_binary/o6118_Dutch%20Healthcare%20Performance%20
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Schut & Van De Van. “Effects of purchaser competition in the Dutch health system: is the glass half full or half empty?” Health Economics, Policy and Law (2011), 6, 109-123: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=8011249&jid=HEP&vo lumeId=6&issueId=01&aid=8011247&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCS ession =
Maarse & Paulus. “The politics of health-care reform in the Netherlands since 2006”
Health Economics, Policy and Law (2011), 6, 125-134: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=8011240&jid=HEP&vo lumeId=6&issueId=01&aid=8011238&bodyId=&membershipNumber=&societyETOCS ession =
Okma, Marmor & Oberlander. “Managed Competition for Medicare? Sobering Lessons from the Netherlands” NEJM.org, June 15, 2011: http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp1106090
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(Full text with DOI)
Payment:
Struijs & Baan. “Integrating Care through Bundled Payments – Lessons from the
Netherlands” NEJM. March 16, 2011: http://healthpolicyandreform.nejm.org/?p=13943
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99159998&view=c&wchp=dGLbVzWzSkWb&md5=b01ed163d44862d92530689e5c60c6fc&ie=/sdarticle.pdf
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Leu, Robert E., Frans Rutten, Werner Brouwer, Matter, and Rutschi. 2008. A Tale of
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Schoen et al, “In Chronic Condition: Experiences of Patients with Complex Health Care
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Commonwealth Fund, 2011. http://www.commonwealthfund.org/~/media/Files/Publications/Fund%20Report/2011/N ov/1562_Squires_Intl_Profiles_2011_117.pdf
[Suggested themes: international perspectives, long term care, pros/cons]
Hakoyama. Chapter 11: Japan in Comparative Health Systems: Global Perspectives edited by Johnson & Stoskopf, Jones and Bartlett Publishers, 2010.
Tatara & Okamoto. “Japan: Health System Review” Health Systems in Transition. Vol.
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Toshiyuki Nishikawa 2011, “Japan’s Healthcare Reform for the Elderly
under the New Government”; paper presented Sept 2011, seattle, APSA annual meeting..
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Revised T. Nishikawa
Paper APSA 2011.doc
rd
Guest Speaker: Palmer Beasley
Proposed FORMAT:
1) Case studies presented by Professor Beasley
2) a student's presentations of some articles
3) Comments by Dr. Beasley & general discussion
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June 2011: http://crehs.lshtm.ac.uk/thai_biafia_19jul.pdf
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