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    <title>Health care issues in the United States and Japan</title>
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    <namePart>Wise, David A.</namePart>
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  <name type="personal">
    <namePart>Yashiro, Naohiro</namePart>
    <namePart type="date">1946-</namePart>
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    <dateIssued>2006</dateIssued>
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    <extent>ix, 258 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.</extent>
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  <tableOfContents>Evaluating Japan's health care reform of the 1990s and its efforts to cope with population aging / Naohiro Yashiro, Reiko Suzuki, and Wataru Suzuki -- U.S. medical care system for the elderly / David M. Cutler and David A. Wise -- International look at the medical care financing problem / David M. Cutler -- Removing the instability and inequity in the Japanese health insurance system / Seiritsu Ogura, Tamotsu Kadoda, and Makoto Kawamura -- Volume-outcome relationship in Japan / Koichi Kawabuchi and Shirgeru Sugihara -- Market concentration, efficiency, and quality in the Japanese homehelp industry / Yanfei Zhou and Wataru Suzuki -- Comparision of the quality of health care in the United States and Japan / Haruko Noguchi ... [et al.] -- Geography and the use of effective health care in the United States / Jonathan Skinner -- Does caregiving effect work? / Kathleen McGarry -- Conjoint analysis to estimate the demand for nicotine replacement therapy in Japan / Seiritsu Ogura ... [et al.]</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">edited by David A. Wise and Naohiro Yashiro.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references and indexes.</note>
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    <geographic>United States</geographic>
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