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Trends in EU Health Care Systems

Author : Winfried de Gooijer

Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media

Page : 522 pages

File Size : 30,4 MB

Release : 2007-03-20

Category : Medical

ISBN : 0387327487

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Book Description

The nations of the EU have long led the world in universal health coverage. Recent economic developments have created problems ranging from inequities of care to growing numbers of uninsured — a progression analyzed by Win de Gooijer in Trends in EU Health Care Systems. His ideas may be startling, and the book is bound to be controversial. This is critical reading for health care managers and policymakers, politicians and insurors - anyone looking to Europe to understand this far-reaching evolution.



Improving Healthcare Quality in Europe Characteristics, Effectiveness and Implementation of Different Strategies

Author : OECD

Publisher : OECD Publishing

Page : 447 pages

File Size : 45,10 MB

Release : 2019-10-17

Category :

ISBN : 9264805907

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This volume, developed by the Observatory together with OECD, provides an overall conceptual framework for understanding and applying strategies aimed at improving quality of care. Crucially, it summarizes available evidence on different quality strategies and provides recommendations for their implementation. This book is intended to help policy-makers to understand concepts of quality and to support them to evaluate single strategies and combinations of strategies.



Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity

Author : E. Pavolini

Publisher : Springer

Page : 319 pages

File Size : 35,10 MB

Release : 2013-11-27

Category : Political Science

ISBN : 0230369626

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This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms with a healthcare quadrilemma, and compares how well these systems perform in terms of economic efficiency, medical achievements, social inequalities, and responsiveness to patients and workers.



Assuring the Quality of Health Care in the European Union

Author : Helena Legido-Quigley

Publisher : World Health Organization

Page : 242 pages

File Size : 36,39 MB

Release : 2008

Category : Medical

ISBN : 9289071931

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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.





Critical Challenges For Health Care Reform In Europe

Author : Saltman , Richard B.

Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)

Page : 442 pages

File Size : 40,97 MB

Release : 1998-10-01

Category : Education

ISBN : 0335199704

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This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in Europe. 17 chapters written by scholars and policy makers from all parts of Europe draw together the available evidence from epidemiology and public health, economics, public policy, organizational behaviour and management theory as well as real world policy making experience, laying out the options that health sector decision-makers confront. Through its cross-disciplinary, cross-national approach, the book highlights the underlying trends that now influence health policy formulation across Europe. An authoritative introduction provides a broad synthesis of present trends and strategies in European health policy.



Health at a Glance: Europe 2018 State of Health in the EU Cycle

Author : OECD

Publisher : OECD Publishing

Page : 216 pages

File Size : 28,9 MB

Release : 2018-11-22

Category :

ISBN : 9264303359

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Book Description

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.



Building Primary Care in a Changing Europe

Author : Dionne S. Kringos

Publisher : World Health Organization

Page : 0 pages

File Size : 50,70 MB

Release : 2015

Category : Europe

ISBN : 9789289050319

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For many citizens primary health care is the first point of contact with their health care system, where most of their health needs are satisfied but also acting as the gate to the rest of the system. In that respect primary care plays a crucial role in how patients value health systems as responsive to their needs and expectations. This volume analyses the way how primary are is organized and delivered across European countries, looking at governance, financing and workforce aspects and the breadth of the service profiles. It describes wide national variations in terms of accessibility, continuity and coordination. Relating these differences to health system outcomes the authors suggest some priority areas for reducing the gap between the ideal and current realities.



Voluntary Health Insurance in Europe: Country Experience

Author : Sagan A.

Publisher : World Health Organization

Page : 163 pages

File Size : 18,25 MB

Release : 2016-07-20

Category : Business & Economics

ISBN : 9289050373

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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.