Health Care in World Cities: New York, Paris, and London

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Edition: 1
Release: 2010-05-03
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN/ASIN: 0801894441
Format: hardcover, kindle, PDF, EPUB

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New York. London. Paris. Although these cities have similar sociodemographic characteristics, including income inequalities and ethnic diversity, they have vastly different health systems and services. This book compares the three and considers lessons that can be applied to current and future debates about urban health care. Highlighting the importance of a national policy for city health systems, the authors use well-established indicators and comparable data sources to shed light on urban health policy and practice. Their detailed comparison of the three city health systems and the national policy regimes in which they function provides information about access to health care in the developed world’s largest cities. The authors first review the current literature on comparative analysis of health systems and offer a brief overview of the public health infrastructure in each city. Later chapters illustrate how timely and appropriate disease prevention, primary care, and specialty h Download Health Care in World Cities for free via rapidshare, mediafire, 4shared, dropBox, uploading, fileserve

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