1. Health Care Systems around the World: Introduction and Overview
Himanshu Sekhar Rout
2. On the Uses of International Comparisons: The U.S. Health System in Comparative Perspective
Victor G. Rodwin
3. Beyond Financing and Payments: Problems Faced by the U.S Health Care System
Steven Jonas
4. The Australian Health Care System
Eileen Willis
5. The Austrian Health Care System
Martin Gächter and Engelbert Theurl
6. Health Care System in China
Sammy Wai Sang Chiu and Sam Wai Kam Yu
7. Chinese Health Care System
Hongwen Li
8. The French Health Care System
Zeynep Or and Nicolas Sirven
9. German Health System: An Overview
Boris Augurzky, Rosemarie Gülker, Arndt Reichert and Harald Tauchmann
10. Continuities and Discontinuities in Post-Communist Healthcare Systems: The Case of Hungary
Peter Mihalyi
11. The Irish Health System
Samantha Smith
12. The Health Care System in Ireland
Padhraig Ryan and Steve Thomas
13. Health Care System in Israel
Shifra Shvarts, Avigdor Kaplan, Dana Schwartz-Ilan and Revital Gross
14. Health Care System in Japan
Hiroya Ogata
15. Health System in Korea
Hyoung-Sun Jeong
16. Youths’ Health and Health Education Services in Portugal
Margarida Gaspar de Matos et al.
17. From Assistencialism to Universal Care: The Spanish National Health System
Rafael Muñoz De Bustillo and José-Ignacio Antón
18. Brazilian National Health System
Ciro Augusto Floriani
19. Changes and Challenges in Brazilian Health Care System
Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa Lobato, José Mendes Ribeiro and Jeni Vaitsman
20. The Mexican Health Care System
Núria Homedes and Antonio Ugalde
21. Health Care System in Pakistan
Babar Tasneem Shaikh
22. Health Care System and Health Policies in Peru: Two Decades of Change 1990-2009
Nancy Palomino and Ruth Iguiñiz
23. Health Care System in Thailand
Thaworn Sakunphanit
24. Health Care System in Turkey
Gulbiye Yenimahalleli Yasar and Ece Ugurluoglu
25. Challenges of the Health Care System in Bangladesh: The Unmet Needs of the Poor
Tania Wahed and Abbas Bhuiya
26. Health Care System in Ghana
Patience Aseweh Abor
27. Health Care System in India
Dipti Govil and Neetu Purohit
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