Health Care Systems around the World: A Comparative Guide

Health Care Systems around the World: A Comparative Guide is a comprehensive reference source describing the organization, distribution, regulation, funding and impact of health care services in 193 countries. Compiler Sarah E. Boslaugh, PhD, MPH, is currently a grant writer and journalist for the Center for Sustainable Journalism at Kennesaw State University and has previously published on the related topics of public health, epidemiology and health statistics.

Boslaugh’s theoretical framework is the definition of health from the Preamble to the Constitution of the World Health Organization (WHO) (1946) and United Nations General Assembly’s Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948); she...