...Charles Lockhart This essay presents data on the thinking of health policy elites in the United States, the United Kingdom and the Federal Republic of Germany. These three national groups are compared in terms of the values they perceive health policy should serve and their conceptions...

...Martin Pfaff; Dietmar Wassener Germany Martin Pfaff and Dietmar Wassener University of Augsburg The principle of solidarity rather than competition is considered the basic constituent...

... which members of the public should be involved in which processes or what the respective rationales and benefits of public engagement are. This article explores operational processes and underlying rationales of public engagement at HTA agencies in France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. The analysis...

... will persist. Health Care Cost Containment in West Germany Deborah A. Stone, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Abstract. The West German health care system has experienced a serious escalation of expenditures since about 1970. For a variety of reasons, many features...

...Stefanie Ettelt Abstract This article examines the role of scientific evidence in informing health policy decisions in Germany, using minimum volumes policy as a case study. It argues that scientific evidence was used strategically at various stages of the policy process both by individual...

...Christa Altenstetter This article on hospital planning programs in France and North-Rhine Westfalia (a state in the Federal Republic of Germany), assembles information on the formal building blocks of inter-organizational relations in the formulation and implementation process. Because...

...Deborah Stone This paper examines the new Professional Standards Review Organizations (PSROs) program in light of a similar program (“Economic Monitoring”) that has been used in West Germany for over forty years. In the first section the PSRO program is described as government-mandated peer review...

...Alfred E. Miller Deborah A. Stone, The Limits of Professional Power: National Health Care in the Federal Republic of Germany (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1980), 212 pp. Copyright © 1982 by the Dept. of Health Administration, Duke University 1982 792 Journal of Health Politics...

..., Duke University 1983 Report from Germany: Current Conditions and Controversies in the Health Care System J,-Matthias Graf Schulenburg, Munich University Abstract. This paper presents a structured survey of the West German health care and health...

...William A. Glaser Germany created the first national health insurance scheme, and its turbulent history has carried many lessons for all other countries. Health care financing—like all social security financing—redistributes wealth and inevitably is caught up in class politics. Cost-sharing...

.../economic circumstances, patterns of state/professional relationsconstrain the policy alternatives available to governments, and make fundamental reform very difficult to achieve. After analyzing these factors and the reform policies adopted in France, Great Britain, and West Germany, this article...

...Christa Altenstetter Over the past fifteen years the national government in the Federal Republic of Germany has animated the political debate about rising health care expenditures. However, it has only provided health policy leadership by shifting the burden of financing health and medical care...

... using the theoretical frameworks of transfer and translation. Methods: The design is based on a comparative case study: the introduction of disease management programs (DMPs) for diabetes in Germany in 2002 and in France in 2008, drawing on a literature review and semistructured interviews. Findings...

...Stefan Greß; Stefan Gildemeister; Jürgen Wasem The Social Transformation of American Medicine: A Comparative View from Germany Stefan Greß University...

...J.-Matthias Graf v.d. Schulenburg The health care system of the Federal Republic of Germany relies on the private sector for the financing, delivery, and payment of care. However, the private sector is regulated by the government to ensure that broad societal interests are being fulfilled...

...Ellen Jane Hollingsworth In comparing the development and strength of community-based services for the chronically mentally ill in the United States, Germany, and the United Kingdom, I analyze how the structure of each country's general medical system has influenced services for the chronically...

...Mary Ruggie Susan Giaimo. Markets and Medicine: The Politics of Health Care Reform in Britain, Germany, and the United States. Ann Arbor:University of Michigan Press, 2002. 307 pp. $60.00 cloth. © 2004 by Duke University Press 2004 Books...

...Christa Altenstetter; Reinhard Busse Under the pressure of health care reform in the 1990s, interactions among the state, sickness funds, and providers in Germany are said to have entered a new era. We examine this new era by assessing both long-term developments connected to German statutory...

... the association between prevention and health care reform. My arguments are based on case studies of policy making in Germany and the United Kingdom. I discuss implications for understanding the core interests of government, physicians, and users with respect to prevention in health policy making. The concluding...

...Colleen M. Grogan Americans view universal coverage as a reality only if a minimum benefit package is explicitly defined, and discussions about expanding access take place under the slogan of minimum benefits. The policy environment is different in Canada, Britain, and Germany. There, health care...