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.]
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Title
Health care issues in the United States and Japan [electronic resource] / edited by David A. Wise and Naohiro Yashiro.
Imprint
Chicago : University of Chicago Press, c2006.
Series
National Bureau of Economic Research conference report