Achieving Universal Health Coverage by Focusing on Primary Care in Japan: Lessons for Low- and Middle-Income Countries

When the Japanese government adopted Western medicine in the late nineteenth century, it left intact the infrastructure of primary care by giving licenses to the existing practitioners and by initially setting the hurdle for entry into medical school low. Public financing of hospitals was kept minim...

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Main Author: Naoki Ikegami (Author)
Format: Book
Published: Kerman University of Medical Sciences, 2016-05-01T00:00:00Z.
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