Comparative Health Policy

This book is very rich in information and analysis...can be recommended to health policy makers and researchers.' --Pim de Graaf, International Journal of Integrated Care

An excellent introductory text for a complex and changing subject which effectively shows how the forces of convergence in health and medical care policies are balanced against the national sources of continuing differences in how health care is delivered, financed, regulated, and evaluated.' --Ted Marmor, Professor of Public Policy& Management, Yale School of Management and Professor of Political Science, Yale University, USA

[An] admirable book...thorough, yet readable...provides a comprehensive map on which specific health policies in individual countries can be located.' --Stephen Thornton, Health Service Journal

A broad-ranging introduction to the provision, funding and governance of health care across a variety of systems. This revised fifth edition incorporates additional material on low/middle income countries, as well as broadened coverage relating to healthcare outside of hospitals and the ever-increasing diversity of the healthcare workforce today.