Health care costs per head in the USA are three times higher than in the UK, yet overall the UK achieves better health outcomes. Recent British reforms have highlighted problems in the delivery of care due to resource allocation, while political imperatives in America have focused on spiralling costs. This work draws together international expertise to produce models of excellence for primary care, allowing current and future decision-makers and opinion-formers to learn from the best practices.
In his capacity as WHO Consultant in Primary Care, John Fry spent decades studying the organization of primary care around the world. He laid the groundwork for this exhaustive examination of the US and UK systems, which brings together invaluable data demonstrating the varying effectiveness of current approaches. It provides an agenda for discussion and action aimed at strengthening primary care within all health systems.
1. Health Care
2. Health Care Systems: An International Overview
3. The
UK Health Care System
4. The US Health Care System
5. Primary Care
6. Primary
Health Care in the UK
7. Primary Health Care in the US
8. Primary Managed
Care: More Choice and Less Cost
John Fry was Britain's most distinguished general practitioner and known throughout the world for his writings about comparative primary care. Donald Light is an American sociologist internationally known for his work on comparative health care systems. He is a professor at the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey, and an adjunct senior fellow at the Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. Jonathan Rodnick is a leading practitioner and professor at the University of California, San Francisco, School of Medicine, where he chairs the Department of Family and Community Medicine. Peter Orton is Immediate Past-President of the General Practice Section, The Royal Society of Medicine, and a general practitioner, Hatfield Heath, Essex.
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