This book compares the health systems of 11 countries to find out what the most successful, in terms of health outcomes, health equity and other measures, having in common. It considers patterns of social determinants, health funding and health expenditure, as well as the ‘first wave’ COVID-19 response of a wider sample 25 countries. Making use of Qualitative Comparative Analysis, it combines detailed studies of its eleven countries with robust, comparative analysis of them.
Keywords: Health systems, Inequality, health funding, COVID-19, Qualitative Comparative Analysis (QCA)
Print publication date: 2021 | Print ISBN-13: 9781447356929 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: May 2022 | DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447356929.001.0001 |