TY - BOOK AU - Wise,David A. AU - Yashiro,Naohiro TI - Health care issues in the United States and Japan SN - 0226902927 (cloth : alk. paper) AV - RA 395 .J3H42 2006 U1 - 362.10952 22 PY - 2006/// CY - Chicago PB - University of Chicago Press KW - Medical care KW - Japan KW - United States N1 - Includes bibliographical references and indexes; 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.] UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2005055904-b.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0666/2005055904-d.html UR - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0668/2005055904-t.html ER -