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Financing Health Care in the European Union : Challenges and Policy Response /
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 - collect...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Geneva :
World Health Organization,
2013.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.