Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan

Health Care Issues in the United States and Japan
David A. Wise and Naohiro Yashiro, editors

Some chapters may have appeared as NBER Working Papers, which are preliminary versions of the published papers.

Table of Contents:

Introduction, p. 1-15
David A. Wise

1. Evaluating Japan's Health Care Reform of the 1990s and Its Efforts to Cope with Population Aging. p. 17-42
Naohiro Yashiro, Reiko Suzuki and Wataru Suzuki


2. The U.S. Medical Care Systm for the Elderly, p. 43-67
David M. Cutler and David A. Wise

3. An International Look at the Medical Care Financing Problem, p. 69-81
David M. Cutler


4. Removing the Instability and Inequity in the Japanese Health Insurance System, p. 83-111
Seiritsu Ogura, Tamotsu Kadoda and Makoto Kawamura


5. The Volume-Outcome Relationship in Japan: The Case of Percutaneous Transluminal Coronary Angioplasty (PTCA) Volume on Mortality of Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) Patients, p. 113-145
Koichi Kawabuchi and Shigeru Sugihara


6. Market Concentration, Efficiency, and Quality in the Japanese Home Help Industry, p. 147-163
Yanfei Zhou and Wataru Suzuki


7. A Comparison of the Quality of Health Care in the United States and Japan: Treatment and Outcomes for Heart Attack Patients, p. 165-193
Haruko Noguchi, Yuichiro Masuda, Masafumi Kuzuya, Akihiko Iguchi, Jeffrey Geppert and Mark McClellan


8. Geography and the Use of Effective Health Care in the United States, p. 195-208
Jonathan Skinner


9. Does Caregiving Affect Work? Evidence Based on Prior Labor Force Experience, p. 209-228
Kathleen McGarry


10. Conjoint Analysis to Estimate the Demand for Nicotine Replacement Therapy in Japan, p. 229-245
Seiritsu Ogura, Wataru Suzuki, Makoto Kawamura and Tamotsu Kadoda