title: Public capabilities and health care effectiveness: implications from a comparative perspective.
abstract: This article examines inter-relationship between "centers" and "peripheries" within political, professional and health care systems. It seeks to determine which conditions tend to improve the capacity of public authorities to further such measures of effectiveness as access to, quality of, and complementarity of health care delivery. Examples are selected from the experience of the United States and West European countries.
mesh_terms: D003695:Delivery of Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D005060:Europe; D006291:Health Policy; D006297:Health Services Accessibility; D007373:Interinstitutional Relations; D009313:National Health Programs / Q000458:organization & administration; D011050:Policy Making; D011320:Primary Health Care; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013598:Systems Theory; D014481:United States