The Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare Delivery

Howard A. Palley, Ph.D., is Professor Emeritus of Social Policy at the School of Social Work and is Distinguished Fellow at the Institute for Human Services Policy at the University of Maryland, Baltimore. He has authored or coauthored a number of studies on health service delivery policies and long-term care policies in the United States, Canada, Sweden, the Republic of Korea, Japan, Ukraine and Israel. His recent research is on the delivery of health care and long-term care services in the U.S. and internationally. His publications have appeared in International Journal of Health Services, International Political Science Review, Journal of Health Politics, Policy and Law, Journal of Health and Social Policy, Inquiry, Health and Social Work, Publius, Social Service Review, Social Policy and Administration, The Milbank Quarterly and the Journal of Aging and Social Policy. He has served on the Science Advisory Board of Health Canada and currently is a member of the state of Delaware HealthFacilities Authority. He has received Fulbright Awards to the Republic of Korea, Taiwan and Ukraine..He is co-author of The Chronically-Limited Elderly: The Case for a National Policy for In-Home and Supportive Community-Based Services. He also is the the editor of Community-Based Programs and Policies: Contributions to Social Policy Development in Health Care and Health Care-Related Services (Routledge, 2009). In addition, he has co-authored The Political and Economic Sustainability of Health Care in Canada: Private-Sector Involvement in the Federal Provincial Health Care System (Cambria Press, 2012). He has co-authored with Marian Lief Palley, the Politics of Women's Health Care in the United States (Palgrave Macmillan, 2014). And he has coedited with Katherine Fierlbeck, Comparative Health Care Federalism (Ashgate Publishing, 2015; Routledge, 2016).

This book...offers a deep introduction to the health care system in each nation covered. The essays are well researched and argued.

• Introduction: Comments on the Public/Private Sector Mix in Healthcare 1- United States: The Dominance of Public funding for Private Provision in the U.S. Healthcare System 2- Canada: Public and Private Interfaces in Canadian Healthcare: Health Equity and Qualityof Healthcare Services Implications 3- Australia: Australia's Health Insurance System and Its Two-Level Hospital system --- a Result of Muddled and Contested Objectives4- France: The Public/Private Sector Mix in France: Implications and Current Debates5- Sweden: Sweden's Public/Private Sector Mix in the Financing and Delivery of HealthcareServices: How it Relates to Health Equity and Quality of Healthcare Services6- The Netherlands: The Changing Private Sector Role in the Netherlands' Public/Private Sector Healthcare System: Some considerations of Health Equity and Quality of Care7- Italy: The Public/Private Sector Mix in the Italian Healthcare System: Some Issues of Equityand Quality of Care 8- Chile and Mexico: Healthcare Commodification, Equity and Quality in Chile and Mexico9- Uruguay: Examining Improvement of Mixed Healthcare Services: Equity and Quality of Healthcare Services in Uruguay10- Brazil: Public/Private Mix In Healthcare --- Inequities and Issues of Quality of Care: The Case of Brazil11- Russia: The Public/Private Mix in Healthcare in Russia: Some Impacts on Health Equity and Quality if Healthcare Services 12- Taiwan: Achievements and Challenges in a Single Payer System