Affordable excellence : the Singapore healthcare story /

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Author / Creator:Haseltine, William A.
Imprint:Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2013.
Description:1 online resource (xiv, 182 pages)
Language:English
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11301898
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Other authors / contributors:Brookings Institution.
ISBN:9780815725091
0815725094
9780815724162
0815724160
Digital file characteristics:data file
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Online resource; title from pdf information screen (Ebsco, viewed April 23, 2013).
Summary:This is the story of the Singapore healthcare system: how it works, how it is financed, its history, where it is going, and what lessons it may hold for national health systems around the world. Singapore ranks sixth in the world in healthcare outcomes, yet spends proportionally less on healthcare than any other high-income country. This is the first book to set out a comprehensive system-level description of healthcare in Singapore, with a view to understanding what can be learned from its unique system design and development path.The lessons from Singapore will be of interest to th.
Other form:Print version: Haseltine, William A. Affordable excellence. Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2013 9780815724162