Welfare, choice, and solidarity in transition : reforming the health section in Eastern Europe /

Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 boo...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Kornai, János
Otros Autores: Eggleston, Karen
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Colección:Federico Caffè lectures.
Temas:
Health care reform > Europe, Eastern.
Medical policy > Europe, Eastern.
Health planning > Europe, Eastern.
Medical care > Europe, Eastern.
Health care reform.
Health Care Reform
Services de santé > Réforme > Europe de l'Est.
Politique sanitaire > Europe de l'Est.
Santé publique > Planification > Europe de l'Est.
Services de santé > Réforme.
Soins médicaux > Europe de l'Est.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Health Care Issues.
MEDICAL > Public Health.
MEDICAL > Health Policy.
HEALTH & FITNESS > Diseases > General.
MEDICAL > Diseases.
MEDICAL > Health Care Delivery.
Health care reform
Health planning
Medical care
Medical policy
Gezondheidszorg.
Hervormingen.
Services de santé > Europe de l'Est.
Europe, Eastern
Eastern Europe
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Descripción
Sumario:Reform of the welfare sector is an important yet difficult challenge for all countries in transition from socialist central planning to market-oriented democracies. Here a scholar of the economics of socialism and post-socialist transition and a health economist take on this challenge. This 2001 book offers health sector reform recommendations for ten countries of Eastern Europe, drawn consistently from a set of explicit guiding principles. After discussing sector-specific characteristics, lessons of international experience, and the main set of initial conditions, the authors advocate reforms based on organized public financing for basic care, private financing for supplementary care, pluralistic delivery of services, and managed competition. Policymakers need to achieve a balance, both assuring social solidarity through universal access to basic health services and expanding individual choice and responsibility through voluntary supplemental insurance. The authors also consider the problems that undermine effectiveness of market-based competition in the health sector.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (xiii, 365 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografía:Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-359) and index.
ISBN:0511012314
9780511012310
0511031335
9780511031335
0511118929
9780511118920
9780511492464
0511492464

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