Comparing the Health Care Systems of High‐Performing Asian Countries. Issue 2 (9th March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Smullen, Amanda; Hong, Phua Kai
• Is Part Of: Asia & the Pacific policy studies. Volume 2:Issue 2(2015)
• Page Start: 347
• Page End: 355
• Publication Date: 2015-03-09
• Subjects: institutions -- health care -- East Asia -- policy reform -- cognizance; Policy sciences -- Asia -- Periodicals; Policy sciences -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Policy sciences -- Australia -- Periodicals; Political planning -- Asia -- Periodicals; Political planning -- Pacific Area -- Periodicals; Political planning -- Australia -- Periodicals; 320.6095
• DOI: 10.1002/app5.76
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2050-2680

Abstract

Abstract: The newly industrialised and high income economies of East Asia perform remarkably well on a range of health system indicators. We adopt an institutional lens to examine and compare the similarities and differences in health care financing and provision in the paired cases of Singapore, Malaysia, Taiwan and South Korea. This illuminates how, despite seemingly common global, regional and functional demands, reformers have responded through diverse means to different institutional constraints. Moreover, some of these cases illuminate the cognizance of reformers with respect to vulnerabilities in their own health care systems enabling effective, albeit ongoing, management.