CONTENTS About the Book v Editor's Profile vi Preface vii-vtii Contributors xii-xxiv 1. Health Care Systems around the World: Introduction and Overview 1-18 Himanshu Sekhar Rout 2. On the Uses of International Comparisons: The U.S. Health System in Comparative Perspective 19-32 Victor G. Rodwin 3. Beyond Financing and Payments: Problems Faced by the U.S Health Care System 33-43 Steven Jonas 4. The Australian Health Care System 44-76 Eileen Willis 5. The Austrian Health Care System 77-102 Martin Gachter and Engelbert Theurl 6. Health Care System in China 103-127 Sammy Wai Sang Chiu and Sam Wai Kam Yu 7. Chinese Health Care System 128-151 Hong wen Li 8. The French Health Care System 152-178 Zeynep Or and Nicolas Sirven 9. German Health System: An Overview 179-196 Boris Augurzky, Rosemarie Giilker, Arndt Reichert and Harald Tauchmann 10. Continuities and Discontinuities in Post-Communist 197-217 Healthcare Systems: The Case of Hungary Peter Mihayi 11. The Irish Health System 218-235 Samantha Smith 12. The Health Care System in Ireland 236-254 Padhraig Ryan and Steve Thomas 13. Health Care System in Israel 255-279 Shifra Shvarts, Avigdor Kaplan, Dana Schwartz-Ilan and Revital Gross 14. Health Care System in Japan 280-293 Hiroya Ogata 15. Health System in Korea 294-327 Hyoung-Sun Jeong 16. Youths' Health and Health Education Services in Portugal 328-343 Margarida Gaspar de Matos et al. 17. From Assistencialism to Universal Care; The Spanish National Health System 344-364 Rafael Muiloz De Bustillo and Jose-Ignacio Anton 18. Brazilian National Health System 365-383 Giro Augusto Floriani 19. Changes and Challenges in Brazilian Health Care System 384-405 Lenaura de Vasconcelos Costa Lobato, Jose Mendes Ribeiro and Jeni Vaitsman 20. The Mexican Health Care System 406-433 Nuria Homedes and Antonio Jgalde 21. Health Care System in Pakistan 434-454 Babar Tasneem Shaikh 22. Health Care System and Health Policies in Peru: Two Decades of Change 1990-2009 455-473 Nancy Palomino and Ruth Iguifliz 23. Health Care System in Thailand 474-501 Thaworn Sakunphanit 24. Health Care System in Turkey 502-532 Gulbiye Yenimahalleli Yasar and Ece Ugurluoglu 25. Challenges of the Health Care System in Bangladesh: 533-552 The Unmet Needs of the Poor Tania Wahed and Abbas Bhuiya 26. Health Care System in Ghana 553-575 Patience Aseweh Abor 27. Health Care System in India 576-612 Dipti Govil and Neetu Purohit Index 613-620