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Author World Health Organization.

Title Financing Health Care in the European Union : Challenges and Policy Response / World Health Organization
Published Geneva : World Health Organization, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (224 pages)
Contents Acknowledgements; Note on the text; List of abbreviations; List of tables and figures; Executive summary; Introduction; 1. The problem of sustainability; 1.1. Distinguishing economic and fiscal sustainability; 1.2. Addressing the fi scal sustainability problem; 1.3. Health care expenditure in context; 2. Health care financing in the European Union; 2.1. Frameworks for analysis; 2.2. Descriptive analysis of financing arrangements; 3. Health care fi nancing reforms: options, trends and impact; 3.1. Maximizing collection and changing the mix of contribution mechanisms
3.2. Addressing fragmented pooling3.3. Expanding entitlement to public coverage and defi ning benefi ts; 3.4. From passive reimbursement to strategic purchasing of health services; 4. Conclusions and policy recommendations; 4.1. Which reforms are most likely to enhance sustainability?; 4.2. Is there an optimal method of financing health care?; 4.3. Policy recommendations; References; Annex: summaries of health care financing by Member State
Summary Health care systems across the European Union face a common challenge: the high cost of health care. Governments strive to ensure that cost pressures do not undermine values such as universal coverage and equitable financing and access. Focusing on the three health care financing functions - collection pooling and purchasing - as well as on coverage this book analyses the organization of health care financing in the Member States of the European Union discusses the principal financing reform trends of recent years and assesses their capacity to help ensure fiscal sustainability. The book inclu
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Subject Health care reform -- European Union countries
Medical care -- European Union countries -- Cost control
Medical economics -- European Union countries
Medical policy -- European Union countries
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9789289041669
9289041668