Some of you may be interested in the phd study Patrick Jeurissen finished recently on:
"For-profit Hospitals. A comparative and longitudinal study of the for-profit hospital sector in four Western countries"
From the introduction of the book:
"The central purpose of this study is to provide an international comparison and
historical explanation of the development of for-profit hospital care. I will seek to
answer the following questions. 1) How did for-profit hospital ownership actually
develop within the context of different Western health care systems? 2) How can
one understand and explain growth (and decline) in for-profit hospitals over the
long term? 3) Why does the development of the for-profit hospital sector differ
between Western countries? This research will look for plausible answers to these
three questions and provide hypotheses for future study. Such work is still uncommon
and limited to shorter periods or tends to be somewhat polemical in nature.
Scholarly efforts have concentrated on the development of the much larger
nonprofit and public hospital sectors or have sought to provide more general
overviews. A comparative perspective on the development of for-profit hospitals
is – with the exception of explorative work of Henry Burdett in the nineteenth
century (1895) – still lacking to my knowledge."
If you are interested please contact Patrick Jeurissen: [log in to unmask] or [log in to unmask]
Beste wishes,
Tom E.D. van der Grinten Phd
Professor Health Care Policy and Organisation
dept. Health Policy and Management
Erasmus University Rotterdam
P.O. Box 1738
3000 DR Rotterdam
The Netherlands
Tel + 31 10 4088912/ 4088595
Fax + 31 10 4089094
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Secr. Anne Jonker
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