Health Care Systems in Europe under Austerity [electronic resource] : Institutional Reforms and Performance /
Pavolini, E.editor.
Guillén, A.editor.
This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms with a healthcare quadrilemma, and compares how well these systems perform in terms of economic efficiency, medical achievements, social inequalities, and responsiveness to patients and workers.
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Cover; Contents; Part I: Country Case Studies; Part II: Comparative Analysis; List of Tables; List of Figures; Series Editors' Preface; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; 1 Sweden: Continued Marketization within a Universalist System; 2 England: Health Reforms Have Improved the NHS; 3 Spain: Quo Vadis? From Cost Containment to Structural Reforms; 4 Italy: A Strange NHS with Its Paradoxes; 5 France: Squaring the Health Spending Circle?; 6 Germany: Mixing Rescaling, Privatization and Managerialism; 7 Austria: A Health Care System between Continuity and Gradual Changes
8 Poland: Decentralization, Privatization and Managerialization of the Health Care System9 The Health Care Policy Quadrilemma and Comparative Institutional Reforms; 10 The Performance of European Health Care Systems; 11 Health Care Provision: An Exploratory Analysis of Increase, Decline, Converging Trends and Driving Forces in Comparative Perspective; 12 Conclusions; References; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
This book analyses recent reform trends of European health care systems. Using eight European countries case studies it connects policy reforms with a healthcare quadrilemma, and compares how well these systems perform in terms of economic efficiency, medical achievements, social inequalities, and responsiveness to patients and workers.
Welfare state.
Social service.
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Social medicine.
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Medical Sociology.