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Title Sick around the world / written by Jon Palfreman and T.R. Reid ; produced and directed by Jon Palfreman.

Publication Info. [Alexandria, Va.] : PBS Video, [2008]

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Location Call No. Status
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  DVD 362.1 SICK    Check Shelf
 Plainville Public Library - Non Fiction  DVD 362.1 SIC    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  DVD DOCUMENTARY SICK    Check Shelf
Description 1 videodisc (60 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Note "A Frontline co-production with the Palfreman Film Group ; FRONTLINE is a production of WGBH Boston, which is solely responsible for its content."--Credits.
Contents 1. Great Britain: a leader in preventive medicine -- 2. Japan: universal coverage, no gatekeepers -- 3. Germany: a popular largely market-based system -- 4. Taiwan: a new system they copied from others -- 5. Switzerland: its former system resembled ours.
Credits Edited by Jon Neuburger ; correspondent, T.R. Reid.
Event Originally broadcast as segments of the television program Frontline on April 15, 2008.
Summary "Four in five Americans say the U.S. health-care system needs "fundamental" change. Can the U.S. learn anything from the rest of the world about how to run a health-care system, or are these nations so culturally different from us that their solutions would simply not be acceptable to Americans? FRONTLINE correspondent T.R. Reid examines first-hand the health-care systems of other advanced capitalist democracies -- UK, Germany, Switzerland, Japan, and Taiwan -- to see what tried and tested ideas might help us reform our broken health-care system."--Frontline web site.
System Details DVD.
Language Closed-captioned.
Note GMD: videorecording.
Subject Health Care Costs -- Asia.
Health Care Costs -- Europe.
Health Care Costs -- United States.
Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Asia.
Cross-Cultural Comparison -- Europe.
Cross-Cultural Comparison -- United States.
Health Policy -- economics -- Asia.
Health Policy -- economics -- Europe.
Health Policy -- economics -- United States.
Quality of Health Care -- economics -- Asia.
Quality of Health Care -- economics -- Europe.
Quality of Health Care -- economics -- United States.
Genre/Form Documentary television programs.
Video recordings for the hearing impaired.
Subject Medical care -- United States.
Medical care -- Great Britain.
Medical care -- Japan.
Medical care -- Germany.
Medical care -- Taiwan.
Medical care -- Switzerland.
Public health administration.
Added Author Palfreman, Jon.
Reid, T. R.
WGBH Educational Foundation.
Palfreman Film Group.
PBS Video.
Added Title Frontline (Television program)
ISBN 0793694574
9780793694570
Standard No. 841887009584
Music No. FRL62611 PBS Home Video
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