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7. A Comparison of the Quality of Health Care in the United States and Japan: Treatment and Outcomes for He art Attack Patients
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- National Bureau of Economic Research v
- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research vi
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- 1. Evaluating Japan’s Health Care Reform of the 1990s and Its Efforts to Cope with Population Aging 17
- 2. The U.S. Medical Care System for the Elderly 43
- 3. An International Look at the Medical Care Financing Problem 69
- 4. Removing the Instability and Inequity in the Japanese Health Insurance System 83
- 5. The Volume-Outcome Relationship in Japan: The Case of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Volume on Mortality of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Patients 113
- 6. Market Concentration, Efficiency, and Quality in the Japanese Home Help Industry 147
- 7. A Comparison of the Quality of Health Care in the United States and Japan: Treatment and Outcomes for He art Attack Patients 165
- 8. Geography and the Use of Effective Health Care in the United States 195
- 9. Does Caregiving Affect Work? Evidence Based on Prior Labor Force Experience 209
- 10. Conjoint Analysis to Estimate the Demand for Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Japan 229
- Contributors 247
- Author Index 249
- Subject Index 253
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- National Bureau of Economic Research v
- Relation of the Directors to the Work and Publications of the National Bureau of Economic Research vi
- Contents vii
- Acknowledgments ix
- Introduction 1
- 1. Evaluating Japan’s Health Care Reform of the 1990s and Its Efforts to Cope with Population Aging 17
- 2. The U.S. Medical Care System for the Elderly 43
- 3. An International Look at the Medical Care Financing Problem 69
- 4. Removing the Instability and Inequity in the Japanese Health Insurance System 83
- 5. The Volume-Outcome Relationship in Japan: The Case of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Volume on Mortality of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Patients 113
- 6. Market Concentration, Efficiency, and Quality in the Japanese Home Help Industry 147
- 7. A Comparison of the Quality of Health Care in the United States and Japan: Treatment and Outcomes for He art Attack Patients 165
- 8. Geography and the Use of Effective Health Care in the United States 195
- 9. Does Caregiving Affect Work? Evidence Based on Prior Labor Force Experience 209
- 10. Conjoint Analysis to Estimate the Demand for Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Japan 229
- Contributors 247
- Author Index 249
- Subject Index 253
