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International Journal for Quality in Health Care 16:265-266 (2004)
International Journal for Quality in Health Care vol. 16 no. 3 © International Society for Quality in Health Care and Oxford University Press 2004; all rights reserved

Book review

Regulating Healthcare: A Prescription for Improvement?

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Kieran Walshe

Open University Press, 2003; 0-33-521023-6; 192 pp; $112.95 Hb, $37.95 Pb

The USA is as close to a market-based health care economy as you will find in any developed country. The UK is more or less as close to a wholly state-funded and -provided health care system as can be found in the developed world. Nevertheless, two observations apply across the two countries’ health care systems. Firstly, the systems are characterized by an extraordinary degree of regulation, and secondly, quality-of-care problems are quite prevalent in both countries. These two observations serve as the basis for a new book by Professor Kieran Walshe that addresses one of the fundamental questions facing the . . . [Full Text of this Article]

David C. Grabowski

Department of Health Care Organization and Policy, University of Alabama at Birmingham, AL, USA


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