LEADER 00000cgm 2200000 a 4500 001 ocn230824328 003 OCoLC 005 20081010155858.0 007 vd cvaizs 008 080407s2008 vau060 vleng 016 7 101470808|2DNLM 020 0793694574 020 9780793694570 024 1 841887009584 028 42 FRL62611|bPBS Home Video 035 (OCoLC)230824328 040 NLM|beng|cNLM|dUB4|dJAG|dJBL|dRCS|dGWU 042 nlmcopyc 043 n-us---|ae-uk---|aa-ja---|ae-gx---|aa-ch---|ae-sz--- 049 GWUA 050 4 RA393|b.S53 2008 060 00 2008 AV-0222 060 10 W 74.1 082 04 362.10973|222 082 14 362.10973|214 245 00 Sick around the world /|cwritten by Jon Palfreman and T.R. Reid ; produced and directed by Jon Palfreman. 264 1 [Alexandria, Va.] :|bPBS Video,|c[2008] 300 1 videodisc (60 min.) :|bsound, color ;|c4 3/4 in. 336 two-dimensional moving image|btdi|2rdacontent 337 video|bv|2rdamedia 338 videodisc|bvd|2rdacarrier 500 "A Frontline co-production with the Palfreman Film Group ; FRONTLINE is a production of WGBH Boston, which is solely responsible for its content."--Credits. 500 GMD: videorecording. 505 0 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. 508 Edited by Jon Neuburger ; correspondent, T.R. Reid. 518 Originally broadcast as segments of the television program Frontline on April 15, 2008. 520 "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. 538 DVD. 546 Closed-captioned. 650 0 Medical care|zUnited States. 650 0 Medical care|zGreat Britain. 650 0 Medical care|zJapan. 650 0 Medical care|zGermany. 650 0 Medical care|zTaiwan. 650 0 Medical care|zSwitzerland. 650 0 Public health administration. 650 12 Health Care Costs|zAsia. 650 12 Health Care Costs|zEurope. 650 12 Health Care Costs|zUnited States. 650 22 Cross-Cultural Comparison|zAsia. 650 22 Cross-Cultural Comparison|zEurope. 650 22 Cross-Cultural Comparison|zUnited States. 650 22 Health Policy|xeconomics|zAsia. 650 22 Health Policy|xeconomics|zEurope. 650 22 Health Policy|xeconomics|zUnited States. 650 22 Quality of Health Care|xeconomics|zAsia. 650 22 Quality of Health Care|xeconomics|zEurope. 650 22 Quality of Health Care|xeconomics|zUnited States. 655 7 Documentary television programs.|2lcgft 655 7 Video recordings for the hearing impaired.|2lcgft 700 1 Palfreman, Jon. 700 1 Reid, T. R. 710 2 WGBH Educational Foundation. 710 2 Palfreman Film Group. 710 2 PBS Video. 730 0 Frontline (Television program) 994 02|bGWU
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