OECD Reviews of Health Systems
Subtitle: Finland 2005
By: Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development
Series: OECD reviews of health systems; OECD Reviews of Health Systems
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Paris
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 110
ISBN-13: 9789264013834
Subjects: Social Issues/Migration/Health
Description: This comprehensive review of the Finnish health care system evaluates financing, service provision, investment, governance, and insurance/payment schemes. Recent reforms are assessed and longer-term challenges such as those posed by technological change, a rapidly ageing population, and rising consumer expectations are evaluated.  The review includes a series of recommendations.
Table of contents: title: Executive Summary; title: Resume (In French); title: Introduction; title: Chapter 1. Organisation of the Finnish Health Care System; title: Introduction; title: Sources of Finance; title: Provision of Services; title: Payment of Providers; title: Investment in Human Resources; title: Governance; title: Patient Insurance; title: Chapter 2. The Performance of the Finnish Health System and its Determinants; title: Introduction; title: Health Status; title: Macroeconomic Efficiency (Financial Sustainability); title: Microeconomic Efficiency (Value for Money); title: Equity in the Financing and Use of Health Care; title: The Bottom Line; title: Chapter 3. Recent Reforms to the Finnish Health Care System; title: The "Health 2015" Public Health Programme; title: The SOMERA Commission; title: The National Project on Safeguarding the Future of Health Care Services; title: Reforms to the Regulation of Medicine; title: Human Resources; title: Waiting Times; title: Electronic Patient Records; title: Concentration of Public Laboratory and Imaging Services; title: Long-Term Care Vouchers and Proposals to Reform the System of Support for Informal Carers; title: Local Reforms; title: The Project to Restructure Municipalities and Services; title: Commentary; title: Chapter 4. Assessment and Recommendations; title: Macroeconomic Efficiency (Sustainability); title: Microeconomic Efficiency (Value for Money); title: Equity in the Financing and Use of Health Care; title: Conclusions; title: References