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Healthcare is one of modern society’s most dynamic policy arenas. While the healthcare sector faces many challenges, it is also active in creating innova- tive models of governing institutions, professionals, and services in response to public demands. Heightened pressures for action, such as the global economic crisis and austerity politics, demographic changes, and persisting inequity, resulting in broadly similar approaches to reform, have increased interest in international, transnational, and global health policy. This, in turn, has fostered comparative research.
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Kuhlmann, E., Blank, R.H., Bourgeault, I.L., Wendt, C. (2015). Healthcare Policy and Governance in International Perspective. In: Kuhlmann, E., Blank, R.H., Bourgeault, I.L., Wendt, C. (eds) The Palgrave International Handbook of Healthcare Policy and Governance. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137384935_1
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