Product Description: Japan is suffering from a “device gap.” Compared to its American and European counterparts, Japan lags in adopting innovative medical devices and making new treatments and procedures available to its patients. Many blame its government and bureaucracy for Japan’s delayed access to modern medicine and new medical devices...read more

Product Description: A compilation of essays which examine the response of the new Right to health policy issues. While economic circumstances dictate the pressures placed on policy-makers, it is argued that there is a gap between the rhetoric they espouse and the actions/initiatives taken.

Product Description: This reference work presents classic and contemporary articles on health policy. These highlight the values and the socio-political factors which underpin health policies, and provide data for assessing and comparing policy-making in different countries...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Health policy reforms are often justified and sometimes generated by ideas - or misperceptions of ideas - about how the health-care system works in other countries. Many countries have attempted to restructure their health-care systems...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)