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ch161.pptGetzen’s Health Economics & Financing, 5th Edition
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Chapter 16: International Comparisons of Health and Health Expenditures
QUESTIONS
Which country is the healthiest?
Which country has the best medical care system?
Which country has the largest health care market?
Is health care trade more or less international than other goods and services?
Is there more trade between countries in goods, services, people, or ideas?
QUESTIONS cont.
What differences are greatest across countries: disparities in doctor supply, hospital technology, life expectancy, or per capita spending?
Is it high income or high medical expenditures that makes wealthy countries more healthy?
Does the distribution of income within a country determine the distribution of health?
16.1 WIDE DIFFERENCES AMONG NATIONS
- Size of the Market
16.2 MICRO VERSUS MACRO ALLOCATION: HEALTH AS A NATIONAL LUXURY GOOD
16.3 CAUSALITY: DOES MORE SPENDING IMPROVE HEALTH?
- Health Care in Ghana
- Sudan
16.4 LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES
16.5 MIDDLE-INCOME COUNTRIES
- China
- The Health Care System of Mexico
- Poland
16.6 HIGH-INCOME COUNTRIES
Health Care in Japan
The Health System in Germany
The Expensive Exception: The United States
16.7 INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN HEALTH CARE
- People and Ideas
- Services
- Equipment
- Pharmaceuticals
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