Co-production and Japanese Healthcare

Healthcare in most developed countries face a complex and partly contradictory mix of financial, social and political challenges. This book explores a possibility to address these issues from a new perspective that emphasizes greater collaboration between the staff and patients.

Autorentext

Victor A. Pestoff is Professor Emeritus in Political Science at Ersta Sköndal Bräcke University College in Stockholm, Sweden and former Guest Professor at the Faculty of Human Sciences, Osaka University, Japan.

Inhalt

1. Introduction: Co-production and Japanese Healthcare. Part 1 Background. 2. Third Sector and Cooperative Services An alternative to privatization. 3. Democratizing Medical and Healthcare The Japanese example. 4. Co-production in Public Service Delivery and Healthcare. Part 2 Co-production and Japanese Healthcare. 5. Research on Japanese Healthcare Background, data and methods. 6. Work Environment and Service Quality in Japanese Healthcare. 7. Two Patterns of Patient Participation in Japanese Healthcare - Aspirational and transformative co-production. 8. Volunteering and Co-production in Japanese Healthcare. 9. Participatory Governance and Japanese Healthcare. 10. The Social Values and Mission of Cooperative and Public Healthcare Providers in Japan Comparing the perspective of the staff, patients and volunteers. 11. Co-production at the Crossroads and Organizational Logics in Japanese Healthcare. Part 3. Summary and Conclusions. 12. Lessons Learned and Implications for Research on Co-production and Healthcare.