Two centuries of solidarity : German, Belgian, and Dutch social health care insurance 1770-2008 /

Today, health insurance is a key component in the system of social security in most European Union countries. In many of these countries, modern health-insurance funds and healthcare insurers play an essential role in implementing the public health-insurance system. Many of these health-insurance fu...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Other Authors: Companje, K. P. (Karel-Peter), 1955-, Veraghtert, Karel, 1944-, Widdershoven, B. E. M. (Brigitte E. M.)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Dutch
Published: Amsterdam : Aksant, 2009.
Series:HiZ-series history of healthcare insurance ; 3.
Subjects:
Health insurance > Netherlands > History.
Health insurance > Belgium > History.
Health insurance > Germany > History.
Insurance, Health > history
History, Modern 1601-
History, Early Modern 1451-1600
Médecine > Histoire > 1500-
HISTORY > General.
Health insurance
Belgium
Germany
Netherlands
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Guilds and health-insurance funds : solidarity during the Ancien Régime
  • The end of the guild system, 1789-1820
  • The birth of modern health-insurance funds
  • Health insurance as a governmental responsibility, 1850-1914
  • War, peace, war, 1914-1945
  • Growth and its limits, 1945-2000
  • Social health insurance and neoliberal regulated market competition, 2000-2008
  • The art of mutual understanding : one concept in three countries.

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