...Mark Schlesinger Abstract Scholars have long recognized the importance of comparisons for envisioning, formulating, and implementing new public policies. But cross-national comparisons of health systems and policies can prove challenging—sometimes potentially misleading—unless one carefully attends...

... . Hospitals, Finance, and Health System Reform in Britain and the United States, c. 1910 – 1950: Historical Revisionism and Cross-­National Comparison Martin Gorsky London School of Hygiene...

... Drug Hearings. Marketletter, 14 February. Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 A Cross-National Comparison of Orphan Drug Policies: Implications for the U.S. Orphan Drug Act...

... Through cross-national comparisons, the essays in this section illuminate the key elements of the U.S. approach to health care. When European nations have passed major health care reforms, the leaders of those countries have presented a strong moral argument for reform. Theodore R. Marmor finds...

... norm), there is still a story of divergence (as we discuss next steps to help the remaining uninsured). A cross-­national comparison on insurance coverage is part of a broader set of cross-­national comparisons on health systems more generally. Why the emphasis on such comparisons...

... SES (including occupational status, education, income, wealth, employment status) Race/ethnicity Geography (comparisons within the country of the report) Gender Disability Other (e.g., cross-national comparisons) Equity, inequity, justice, injustice, fairness, unfair, fair...

.... The section concludes with Robert Kudrle’s cross-national comparison of the universal dental health insurance models of New Zealand, the United Kingdom, Sweden and Canada. He illustrates the value of inter- national comparisons for anticipating probable implementation problems and side effects...

... and integrating health and welfare services. And, finally, Lawrence D. Brown examines the organizational setting and political resources of middle-level officials in state health bureaucracies implementing certificate-of-need programs in the United States. Both of the last two papers are cross...

... that explore health systems at various locations around the globe, either in the form of explicit cross-national comparisons of many states or more targeted country-specific analyses. Our routine business, with a little bit of nurturing, has generated the articles...

... on. Schlesinger s Editor’s Note 581 In This Issue: Cross-National Comparisons of Policy—Familiar Yet Strangely Different? This issue is all about comparisons among countries. For some articles (Maarse and Paulus; Wiktorowicz), and for both book reviews, this com- parative process is made explicit...

... not clearly identified) in which it is desirable to maintain both societal rights and professionalism paradigms in tandem. A second lesson about the politics of health (care) disparities recurs as a theme in both the cross-national and the cross-state comparisons. In both settings, the politics...

.... 122 pp. New York: United Hospital Fund, 1989. $5.00, plus $2.00 postage and handling. The State and the Medical Profession: A Cross-National Comparison of the Health Policy Arena in the United Kingdom and Sweden, 1945-1985. By Peter Garpenby. 240 pp. Sweden: Goterna, Kungalv, 1989...

... countries, particularly when those countries followed Germany in adopting public health insurance. Some of the intramedical differences in the German situation could stimulate cross-national comparisons. To some extent the positions of the Berlin and Frank- furt doctors as upholders of liberal...

... followed Germany in adopting public health insurance. Some of the intramedical differences in the German situation could stimulate cross-national comparisons. To some extent the positions of the Berlin and Frank- furt doctors as upholders of liberal positions suggest parallels to the role of New...

... Politics, Policy and Law 23 : 35 -52. Campbell, John C., and Naoki Ikagami. 2003 . Japan's Radical Reform of Long Term Care. Social Policy and Administration 37 : 21 -34. Kerkstra, Ada, and Jack B. F. Hutten. 1996 . A Cross-National Comparison of Health Care in Europe. In Home Care...

...:395–396 Thamer, Mae, Niall Brennan, and Rafael Semansky. A Cross-National Comparison of Orphan Drug Policies: Implications for the U.S. Orphan Drug Act, 2:265–290 Vining, Aidan. See Schwindt Weissert, Carol S., and Susan L. Silberman. Sending a Policy Signal: State Legislatures, Medical...

.... He received his PhD in health economics in 2005 from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His current research focuses on the adoption and impact of health information technology and cross-­national comparisons in the pharmaceuti- cal industry. His recent publications have...

...-national per- spective dso yields penetrating insights. Many students ofpolicy extol the virtue of cross-national comparisons; few actually conduct them. Furthermore, at a time when some social scientists have elevated dry, mechanical prose to the level of principle (“It’s more scientific Stone...

... Research and Development Center. His areas of expertise include: managed care / health insurance, case-mix / risk adjust- ment, primary care, quality of care, health IT, and cross-national comparisons. He has consulted with many private and public health care organizations around the globe. ...

..., selective perception and disputes about the interpretation of evidence characterize the use (and misuse) of cross-national comparisons in the world of policy debate. Even if we are driven by shared problems and anxieties to examine the experience of other countries, what we find will be viewed through...