Author : Saltman, Richard
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 40,44 MB
Release : 2004-09-01
Category : Education
ISBN : 0335213634
This title explores the nature of the pressures social health insurance systems confront to be more efficient, more effective, and more responsive.
Author : Sagan A.
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 43,31 MB
Release : 2016-07-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9289050373
No two markets for voluntary health insurance (VHI) are identical. All differ in some way because they are heavily shaped by the nature and performance of publicly financed health systems and by the contexts in which they have evolved. This volume contains short structured profiles of markets for VHI in 34 countries in Europe. These are drawn from European Union member states plus Armenia Iceland Georgia Norway the Russian Federation Switzerland and Ukraine. The book is aimed at policy-makers and researchers interested in knowing more about how VHI works in practice in a wide range of contexts. Each profile written by one or more local experts identifies gaps in publicly-financed health coverage describes the role VHI plays outlines the way in which the market for VHI operates summarises public policy towards VHI including major developments over time and highlights national debates and challenges. The book is part of a study on VHI in Europe prepared jointly by the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the WHO Regional Office for Europe. A companion volume provides an analytical overview of VHI markets across the 34 countries.
Author : Helena Legido-Quigley
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,54 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9289071931
People have always travelled within Europe for work and leisure, although never before with the current intensity. Now, however, they are travelling for many other reasons, including the quest for key services such as health care. Whatever the reason for travelling, one question they ask is "If I fall ill, will the health care I receive be of a high standard?" This book examines, for the first time, the systems that have been put in place in all of the European Union's 27 Member States. The picture it paints is mixed. Some have well developed systems, setting standards based on the best available evidence, monitoring the care provided, and taking action where it falls short. Others need to overcome significant obstacles.
Author : Ellen M. Immergut
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 374 pages
File Size : 23,41 MB
Release : 1992-08-28
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521413350
A comparative analysis of the politics of national health insurance in Sweden, France and Switzerland, showing how the Swedes have developed the most 'socialized' health system in Western Europe, the Swiss the most 'privatized' and the French a conflict-ridden compromise between the two.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 22,34 MB
Release : 2016-11-23
Category :
ISBN : 9264265597
This fourth edition of Health at a Glance: Europe presents key indicators of health and health systems in the 28 EU countries, 5 candidate countries to the EU and 3 EFTA countries.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 37,37 MB
Release : 2018-11-22
Category :
ISBN : 9264303359
Health at a Glance: Europe 2018 presents comparative analyses of the health status of EU citizens and the performance of the health systems of the 28 EU Member States, 5 candidate countries and 3 EFTA countries.
Author : Mckee
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,49 MB
Release : 2004-04-01
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0335226442
While there may be consensus on the broader issues of the core objectives of the health care system, expectations differ between EU countries, and European national policy-makers. This book seeks firstly to assess the impact of the enlargement process and then to analyse the challenges that lie ahead in the field of health and health policy.
Author : Rechel B.
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 161 pages
File Size : 31,4 MB
Release : 2018-11-20
Category : Law
ISBN : 9289051728
How are public health services in Europe organized and financed? With European health systems facing a plethora of challenges that can be addressed through public health interventions there is renewed interest in strengthening public health services. Yet there are enormous gaps in our knowledge. How many people work in public health? How much money is spent on public health? What does it actually achieve? None of these questions can be answered easily. This volume brings together current knowledge on the organization and financing of public health services in Europe. It is based on country reports on the organization and financing of public health services in nine European countries and an in-depth analysis of the involvement of public health services in addressing three contemporary public health challenges (alcohol obesity and antimicrobial resistance). The focus is on four core dimensions of public health services: organization financing the public health workforce and quality assurance. The questions the volume seeks to answer are: o How are public health services in Europe organized? Are there good practices that can be emulated? What policy options are available? o How much is spent on public health services? Where do resources come from? And what was the impact of the economic crisis? o What do we know about the public health workforce? How can it be strengthened? o How is the quality of public health services being assured? What should quality assurance systems for public health services look like? This study is the result of close collaboration between the European Observatory on Health Systems and Policies and the WHO Regional Office for Europe Division of Health Systems and Public Health. It accompanies two other Observatory publications: Organization and financing of public health services in Europe: country reports and The role of public health organizations in addressing public health problems in Europe: the case of obesity alcohol and antimicrobial resistance.
Author : Costanzo Ranci
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 322 pages
File Size : 33,32 MB
Release : 2012-11-08
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 1461445027
Over the last two decades, many changes have happened to the social welfare policies of various industrial countries. Citizens have seen their pensions, unemployment benefits, and general healthcare policies shrink as “belt tightening” measures are enforced. But in contrast, long-term care has seen a general growth in public financing, an expansion of beneficiaries, and, more generally, an attempt to define larger social responsibilities and related social rights. The aim of this book is to describe and interpret the changes introduced in long-term care policies in Western Europe. The volume argues that recent reforms have brought about an increasing convergence in LTC policies. Most of the new programs have developed a new general approach to long-term care, based on a better integration of social care and health care. The book explores increasing public support given to family care work (in the past, the family would take care of the elderly or infirm) and increasing growth and recognition of a extended social care market (by which care has shifted from a moral obligation based on family reciprocity to a paid, professional activity). A new social care arrangement has therefore been developing in Western countries, based on a new mix of family obligations, market provision, and public support. In order to understand such changes, this analysis will take into account the social and economical impact of these reforms.
Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 12,99 MB
Release : 2020-11-19
Category :
ISBN : 926481194X
The 2020 edition of Health at a Glance: Europe focuses on the impact of the COVID‐19 crisis. Chapter 1 provides an initial assessment of the resilience of European health systems to the COVID-19 pandemic and their ability to contain and respond to the worst pandemic in the past century.
