TY  - BOOK
AU  - Doyle, Barry
AU  - Nemi, Ana
AU  - Hüntelmann, Axel Cäsar
AU  - Hoffman, Beatrix
AU  - Xu, Jin
AU  - Mills, Anne
AU  - Hibbard, Melissa
AU  - Szélinger, Balázs
AU  - Grombir, Frank
ED  - Martin, Gorsky
ED  - Vilar Rodríguez, Margarita
ED  - Pons Pons, Jerònia
AB  - The modern hospital is at once the site of healing, the locus of medical learning and a cornerstone of the welfare state. Its technological and infrastructural costs have transformed health services into one of today's fastest growing sectors, absorbing substantial proportions of national income in both developed and emerging economies.  The aim of this book is to examine this growth in different countries, with a main focus on the twentieth century, and also with a backward glance to earlier shaping forces.  It will explore the hospital's economic history, the relationship between public and private forms of provision, and the political context in which health systems were constructed.  The collection advances the historical world map of different hospital models, ranging across Spain, Brazil, Germany, East and Central Europe, Britain, the United States and China.  Collectively, these comparative cases illuminate the complexities involved in each country and bring new historical evidence to current debates on health care organisation, financing and reform.
DO  - 10.5920/PoliticalEconomy.fulltext
KW  - Hospital, healthcare,  economic history, organisation, financing,  reform, hospital models
L1  - https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/id/2ce8cb36-c9e6-4e48-ae95-1b086d8b0d38/10.5920_PoliticalEconomy.fulltext.pdf
LA  - English
LK  - https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/47510
PB  - University of Huddersfield Press
PP  - Huddersfield
PY  - 2020
TI  - The Political Economy of the Hospital in Historynull
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