Health Services Privatization in Industrial Societies

This book is the first to look at the theory and practice of privatization of health services internationally. The contributors give original case studies of privatization in the United States, Canada, New Zealand, Great Britain, West Germany, France, Sweden, and Chile. Among the sectors of health care they examine are public and private hospitals, environmental health programs to prevent cancer, mental health care, prepaid health plans, and the multinational pharmaceutical industrial.