... from Switzerland. In Health, the Medical Profession, and Regulation , ed. P. Zweifel. Boston: Kluwer. Bopp, M., and F. Gutzwiller. 1998 . Die mittlere Lebenserwartung in der Schweiz [Average life expectancy in Switzerland]. Sozial- und Präventivmedizin 43 : 149 -161. Federal Statistical...

.... Colombo, F., P. Zurn, and H. Oxley. 2006 . Switzerland . Paris: World Health Organization. De Nederlandsche Bank. 2008a . Annual Report 2007 for the De Nederlandsche Bank . Amsterdam: De Nederlandsche Bank. ____. 2008b . DNB Statistical Bulletin June 2008 . Amsterdam: Central Bank...

...James Warner Björkman Okma Kieke G. H. and Crivelli Luca , eds. Six Countries, Six Reform Models: The Healthcare Reform / Experience of Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan — Healthcare Reforms “Under the Radar Screen.” Singapore : World Scientific...

... European countries (Belgium,Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland) over the past decade. A distinction is made between risk solidarity and income solidarity, and the scope of solidarity is shown to have two dimensions: entitlements and membership. The analysis consists of three parts: description...

... as a different type (Glaser 1991 ). This article focuses on Austria, France, Germany, the Netherlands, and Switzerland. The first four systems developed from Bismarckian workers' health insurance, originally structured by the state but focused on only a portion of society. A long process of dual inclusion...

..., Switzerland, the UK, and the United States. The extent and kind of integration between public health and health care in different countries are shaped by two different factors, he argues. First, Trein posits that differences between countries will be explained by a two-stage interaction, in which “politicized...

..., Korea, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Nevertheless, each of these books merits a place on the shelf (or in the cloud) of any scholar interested in the big issues of health care finance...

... — Switzerland . Copenhagen: World Health Organization, Regional Office for Europe. Ferrera, M., A. Hemerijck, and M. Rhodes. 2001 . The Future of the “European Social Model” in the Global Economy. Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis 3 : 163 –190. Figueras, J., J. C. Robinson, and E. Jakubowski...

...- versity Press, 2003. 269 pp. $62.50 cloth; $20.95 paper. Health Law and Biomedical Ethics 25 Questions and Answers on Health and Human Rights. WHO. Geneva, Switzerland: World Health Organization, 2003. 32 pp. $9.00 paper. Coercing Virtue: The Worldwide Rule of Judges. Robert H. Bork. Washington, DC...

..., Switzerland. For further information contact the Swiss Institute for Public Health. rue du Bugnon 21A, Ch-1005 Lausanne, Switzerland. Publications Managed Competition and Other Health Reform Proposals:An Overview and The Com- parison of Medical Equipment Price Trends to Overall Inflation are two...

... States and Switzerland. Although the private share of physician and hospital expenses in Canada is low, private sources finance over one-fourth of all health care spending, and these sources are split between private insurance and out-of-pocket expense. In conse- quence, the Herfindahl for Canada...

... . Books Review Kieke G. H. Okma and Luca Crivelli, editors. Six Countries, Six Reform Models: The Healthcare Reform / Experience of Israel, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland and Taiwan —  Healthcare Reforms “Under...

..., the Medicare prescription drug benefit; and the Medigap supplemental insurance program. We then look abroad, to Switzerland and the Netherlands, where citizens choose among private health insurance plans to obtain health care coverage. And last, we turn to large employers, looking at several states...

... constitutes the most thorough study to date of hospital finance in the United States. It is even more notable than just that, however, because it is also a thorough comparative study of hospital finance. In Glaser’s case, comparative means France, Germany, England, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Canada...

..., (941) 388-1766, (941) 365-7073, [email protected]. The Second World Congress on the Aging Male takes place on 9 February 2000 in Geneva. For more information contact the International Society for the Study of the Aging Male, Geneva, Switzerland, (+41) 22-908-1855, fax (+41) 22-908-1835, chenl...

... was conducted in France, the Netherlands, Germany, Switzerland, Belgium, Sweden, Great Britain, and Canada, in several research projects about national health insurance, hospital finance, and federal-provincial relations. I will cite examples from American state programs and from individual European...

... Sustainable Health Care Systems . Baden-Baden, Germany: Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. Herzlinger, R. E., and R. Parsa-Parsi. 2004 . Consumer-Driven Health Care: Lessons from Switzerland. Journal of the American Medical Association 292 : 1213 -1220. Himmelstein, D. U., and S. Woolhander. 2003...

... 778, 6200 @ Maastricht, The Netherlands. International Guidelinesfor Ethical Review of Epidemiological Studies, prepared by the Council of International Organizations of Medical Sciences in Geneva, Switzerland, News and Notes 981 is available...

.... Mark L. Rosenberg, Elisabeth S. Hayes, Margaret H. McIntyre, and Nancy Neill. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2010. 262 pp. $60.00 cloth; $24.95 paper. Six Countries, Six Reform Models: The Healthcare Reform Experience of Israel, The Netherlands, New Zealand, Singapore, Switzerland...