Saltman R B
Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, GA 30322, USA.
Health Policy. 1997 Sep;41 Suppl:S9-26. doi: 10.1016/s0168-8510(97)00050-x.
The success of health policy initiatives can be strongly influenced by the political, social, and cultural context within which a health care system operates. This study explores the similarities and differences in the background context of the four countries considered in this supplement: Sweden, the United Kingdom, Germany, and the United States. It concludes that there are considerable differences in the background context among these four countries, which help to explain their differing structural and organizational approaches to issues of pharmaceutical and home care policy.
医疗保健系统运行所处的政治、社会和文化背景会对卫生政策倡议的成功产生重大影响。本研究探讨了本增刊中所考虑的四个国家：瑞典、英国、德国和美国在背景方面的异同。研究得出结论，这四个国家在背景方面存在相当大的差异，这有助于解释它们在药品和家庭护理政策问题上不同的结构和组织方式。
