Author : Erwin Deutsch
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 850 pages
File Size : 34,82 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Law
ISBN : 3642704492
With contributions by numerous experts
Author : Dionne S. Kringos
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,18 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Europe
ISBN : 9789289050319
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.
Author : Helena Legido-Quigley
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 38,25 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 : 43,87 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 : Sagan A.
Publisher : World Health Organization
Page : 163 pages
File Size : 47,15 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 : Mckee
Publisher : McGraw-Hill Education (UK)
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 12,85 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 : Lawrence I. Conrad
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 574 pages
File Size : 26,64 MB
Release : 1995-08-17
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780521475648
This text, written by members of the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and first published in 1995, is designed to cover the history of western medicine from classical antiquity to 1800. As one guiding thread it takes, as its title suggests, the system of medical ideas that in large part went back to the Greeks of the eighth century BC, and played a major role in the understanding and treatment of health and disease. Its influence spread from the Aegean basin to the rest of the Mediterranean region, to Europe, and then to European settlements overseas. By the nineteenth century, however, this tradition no longer carried the same force or occupied so central a position within medicine. This book charts the influence of this tradition, examining it in its social and historical context. It is essential reading as a synthesis for all students of the history of medicine.
Author : Faith Wallis
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 594 pages
File Size : 45,40 MB
Release : 2019-02-06
Category : History
ISBN : 1442604239
Medical knowledge and practice changed profoundly during the medieval period. In this collection of over 100 primary sources, many translated for the first time, Faith Wallis reveals the dynamic world of medicine in the Middle Ages that has been largely unavailable to students and scholars. The reader includes 21 illustrations and a glossary of medical terms.
Author : Committee for the Study of the Future of Public Health
Publisher : National Academies Press
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 42,67 MB
Release : 1988-01-15
Category : Medical
ISBN : 0309581907
"The Nation has lost sight of its public health goals and has allowed the system of public health to fall into 'disarray'," from The Future of Public Health. This startling book contains proposals for ensuring that public health service programs are efficient and effective enough to deal not only with the topics of today, but also with those of tomorrow. In addition, the authors make recommendations for core functions in public health assessment, policy development, and service assurances, and identify the level of government--federal, state, and local--at which these functions would best be handled.
Author : Dóra Vargha
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 267 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2018-11
Category : History
ISBN : 1108420842
Through the lens of polio, Dóra Vargha looks anew at international health, communism and Cold War politics. This title is also available as Open Access.
