Paradigms of Healthcare Systems, Law, and Regulation: A Transatlantic Conversation
Document Type
Book Section
Publication Date
9-2021
ISBN
9780190846756
DOI
10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190846756.013.47
Abstract
This chapter assesses how the law creates and sustains healthcare systems. It considers six paradigm concepts which are important in the structures of healthcare systems and how the law seeks to support and encourage the effective provision of healthcare to relevant populations. These concepts are quality/accessibility; health citizenship and a “right to health”; individual liberty; market competition; economic productivity; and “health justice” and integrated social services. The chapter then discusses five structures for health system regulation, starting with the simplest: public provision of health services, publicly funded but privately supplied health services, self-regulating health professions, public–private partnerships, and nonprofit and charitable organizations. Finally, it compares European and American approaches to the geographical dimensions of health system law and regulation, discussing paradigms of federalism and localism.
First Page
18
Last Page
65
Num Pages
48
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Editor
David Orentlicher & Tamara K. Hervey
Book Title
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law
Recommended Citation
Alceste Santuari & William M. Sage,
Paradigms of Healthcare Systems, Law, and Regulation: A Transatlantic Conversation,
in
The Oxford Handbook of Comparative Health Law
18
(David Orentlicher & Tamara K. Hervey eds., 2021).
Available at:
https://scholarship.law.tamu.edu/facscholar/1684