Realignments in the Welfare State: Health Policy in the United States, Britain, and CanadaColumbia University Press, 1996 - 298 pages This text explores the changing role of the state in Canada, Britain and the USA in the area of health care. Welfare systems have survived, in many cases, by experimenting with alternative forms of delivering services - this book focuses on how these models signal both persistence and transformation. |
Contents
Chapter | 28 |
Chapter Three | 77 |
Chapter Four | 131 |
Chapter Five | 185 |
Chapter | 222 |
Chapter Seven | 258 |
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