Health Insurance Politics in Japan : : Policy Development, Government, and the Japan Medical Association / / Takakazu Yamagishi.
Japan is the fastest aging country, with the largest super-aged society in the world and growing larger by the day, yet its universal health care costs are relatively low. In Health Insurance Politics in Japan, Takakazu Yamagishi draws back the curtain for an international audience and investigates...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2022 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Culture and Politics of Health Care Work
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (240 p.) :; 2 b&w line drawings, 10 charts |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Abbreviations
- Notes on the Text
- Introduction: To Understand the Health Insurance Policy Development in Japan
- 1. Westernizing Medicine
- 2. Reacting to Deteriorating Health
- 3. Improving People’s Health for War
- 4. Reforming Health Care with the United States
- 5. Achieving Universal Health Insurance
- 6. Consolidating Universal Health Insurance
- 7. Making Universal Health Insurance Survive
- 8. Japanese Health Care in the Globalization Era
- Conclusion: For the Future of Health Insurance Politics
- Appendix
- Notes
- Index