Business History of Hospitals in the 20th Century

<p>Part I. Cost Efficiency and the Hospital System in the United States.-&nbsp;Chapter 1. Fuzzy Numbers: U.S. Hospital Accounting since the 1930s (Christy F. Chapin).-&nbsp;Chapter 2.&nbsp;Resisting The Dream of Markets: Maryland’s All-Payer Hospital Rate-Setting System and the Persistence of Regulation in U.S. Health Care (Guian McKee).-&nbsp;Chapter 3. A Brief Overview of the Development of the Nursing Home Sector in the United States&nbsp;(Andrew Simpson).- Part II.&nbsp;Private Hospitals and Healthcare in Europe.-&nbsp;Chapter 4. “Poliklinik” in the German Democratic Republic after 1945: The unification of outpatient and inpatient care in hospitals&nbsp;(Sabine Schleiermacher).-&nbsp;Chapter 5. Between Public and private: the business history of hospitals in Italy (1968-2018)&nbsp;(Daniela Felisini and Fernando Salsano).-&nbsp;Chapter 6. The International Sanitary Service (ISS) and the Innovations in Mobile Hospitals and Auto-chirs during the Spanish Civil War, 1936-1939&nbsp;(Carles Brasó Broggi).-&nbsp;Chapter 7. The Emergence of Modern Hospital Planning and Administration in Spain (1966-1986)&nbsp;(Josep Barceló Prats).-&nbsp;Chapter 8. Private hospital groups in Spain: business concentration and penetration in public health (Jeronia Pons and Margarita Vilar).-&nbsp;Chapter 9. The Road to the National Health Service: Finance, Markets and the United Kingdom’s Universal Health System&nbsp;(Barry Doyle).- Part III.&nbsp;Public and Private Initiative in Asia.-&nbsp;Chapter 10. The Rise of Hospital Dominance in China:&nbsp; Distribution of Resources and Activities Between Hospitals and Primary Care Facilities (1949-2018)&nbsp;(Jin Xu).-&nbsp;Chapter 11. Japanese trading companies and hospital business in Asia since 2000&nbsp;(Pierre-Yves Donzé).- Part IV.&nbsp;The Construction of Healthcare Systems in Latin America and Africa.-&nbsp;Chapter 12. Hospital Systems in Latin America: Transformation and Change, 1960s–2020s&nbsp;(Paloma Fernández Pérez).-&nbsp;Chapter 13. Immigration and health systems in Argentina. The case of the Spanish Hospital of Buenos Aires&nbsp;(Alejandro Fernández).-&nbsp;Chapter 14. From missionaries to entrepreneurs in the business of hospitals in Africa&nbsp;(Grietjie Verhoef).</p>