SOC244H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Blackboard, Child Mortality, E-Book
Document Summary
Sociology of health care: national health insurance: spain, uk, canada. Structure of the class: social insurance systems: germany and others, national health systems: uk, spain, australia, canada, in-class review. To gain a understand the historical and political specificities of different health care systems by: understanding health systems as political institutions, understand the basics of comparative health care analysis. Social insurance was a compromise for social stability and economic prosperity and development: Societally-based: many actors/strong state oversight/regulation of the profit motive. The german model has been vastly influential in europe and other places (oecd) France, austria, belgium, netherlands, spain, denmark, switzerland, us etc: model of social stability, there is different contribution from the state the the productive forces. If you cannot pay, there are state options within the system (esp. when elevated as a citizen right) Some times access to hc is in the constitution of the country: financing: employers + employees + state.
