Healthcare Systems by Jeffrey Braithwaite, Russell Mannion, Y... - 9780367781262

Healthcare SystemsFuture Predictions for Global Care\nAuthor(s): Jeffrey Braithwaite, Russell Mannion, Yukihiro Matsuyama, Paul G. Shekelle, Stuart Whittaker, Samir Al-Adawi\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: CRC Press\nISBN-13: 9780367781262, 978-0367781262\nSynopsis\nIn this book, we invited 146 authors with expertise in health policy, systems design, management, research, or practice, from each of the countries included, to consider health reforms or systems improvements in their country or region. The resulting case studies, of 52 individual countries and five regional groupings, cover 152 countries or territories, or three-quarters of the worlds nations. Each chapter author was asked to think 515 years into the future and make a prediction on how their health system could be strengthened as a result of the successful unfolding of their case study.\n\nThe types of projects our authors have chosen to explicate into the future are wides