Containing Health Care Costs in Japan.

Intro -- Contents -- Introduction / Naoki Ikegami and John Creighton Campbell -- Conventions and Usages -- 1. Overview: Health Care in Japan / Naoki Ikegami -- Section I: The Macroeconomics of Health Care -- 2. Comparison of Health Expenditure Estimates between Japan and the United States / Yukiko Katsumata -- 3. Factors in Health Care Spending: An Eight-Nation Comparison with OECD Data / Naoki Ikegami and Yoshinori Hiroi -- 4. Afterword: Costs-The Macro Perspective / William C. Hsiao -- Section II: The Microeconomics of Health Care -- 5. The "Natural Increase" and Cost Control / Yoshinori Hiroi -- 6. Comparison of Capital Costs in Health Care between Japan and the United States / Kōichi Kawabuchi -- 7. Comparison of Administrative Costs in Health Care between Japan and the United States / Naoki Ikegami, Jay Wolfson and Takanori Ishii -- 8. Afterword: Costs-The Micro Perspective / George D. Greenberg -- Section III: Technology and Costs -- 9. Comparison of Hospital Admission Rates between Japan and the United States / Toshihiko Hasegawa -- 10. High-Cost Technology in Health Care: The Adoption and Diffusion of MRI in Japan / Akinori Hisashige -- 11. Comparison of Pharmaceutical Expenditure between Japan and the United States / Naoki Ikegami -- 12. Sales, R&amp -- D, and Profitability in the Japanese Pharmaceutical Industry, 1981−1982 / Will Mitchell, Thomas Roehl, and John Creighton Campbell -- 13. Afterword: Quality and Cost in Japanese and U.S. Medical Care / John M. Eisenberg with Nancy Foster -- Section IV: Institutions and Costs -- 14. Comparison of Long-Term Care for the Elderly between Japan and the United States / Naoki Ikegami and Takeshi Yamada -- 15. The Impact of Financing Reform: Inclusive Per-Diem Reimbursement in Geriatric Care / Yasuo Takagi -- 16. Waiting Lists in Japanese Hospitals / Naoki Ikegami and Shunya Ikeda.

17. Comparison of Hospital Length of Stay and Charges between Japan and the United States / Naoko Muramatsu and Jersey Liang -- 18. Afterword: Implications for U.S. Health Care Policy Reform / William G. Weissert -- Section V: Health Behavior and Attitudes -- 19. Paradoxical Comparison of Health Care Needs, Utilization, and Costs between Japan and the United States / Hiroko Akiyama -- 20. Keeping Pressures off the Japanese Health Care System: The Contribution of Middle-Aged Women / Margaret Lock -- 21. The Three-Minute Cure: Doctors and Elderly Patients in Japan / Ruth Campbell -- 22. Over My Dead Body: The Enigma and Economics of Death in Japan / Eric A. Feldman -- 23. Afterword: Social, Cultural, and Behavioral Factors / Arnold J. Rosoff -- Section VI: Politics and Health Care -- 24. The Egalitarian Health Insurance System / John Creighton Campbell -- 25. The Evolution of Fee-Schedule Politics in Japan / Mikitaka Masuyama and John Creighton Campbell -- 26. The Japan Medical Association and Private Practitioners' Income / Yasuo Takagi -- 27. Afterword: National Health Insurance, Cost Control, and Cross-National Lessons-Japan and the United States / Theodore R. Marmor -- Contributors -- Index.

A comprehensive picture of costs in Japan's effective and efficient health care system.

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