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Informationen zum Autor Richard Saltman is Professor of Health Policy and Management at the Rollins School of Public Health, Emory University, Atlanta, and a consultant to the Health Systems Analysis unit of the WHO Regional Office for Europe in Copenhagen. Josep Figueras is Acting Regional Officer in the Health Systems Analysis unit of the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen, and Senior Lecturer at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine. Constantino Sakellarides is Director-General for Health in the Ministry of Health in Portugal. He was previously Director of Health Policy and Services Department at the WHO Regional Office for Europe, Copenhagen. Klappentext This volume explores the central issues driving the present process of healthcare reform in Europe. 17 chapters written by scholars and policy makers from all parts of Europe draw together the available evidence from epidemiology and public health, economics, public policy, organizational behaviour and management theory as well as real world policy making experience, laying out the options that health sector decision-makers confront. Through its cross-disciplinary, cross-national approach, the book highlights the underlying trends that now influence health policy formulation across Europe. An authoritative introduction provides a broad synthesis of present trends and strategies in European health policy. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction Part one: The context for health reform Values, norms and the reform of healthcare systems Macro-economic constraints and health challenges facing European health systems Part two: Demand side strategies Balancing competition and solidarity in healthcare financing The appropriate role for patient cost-sharing Priority setting and rationing health services Reforming public health services Part three: Supply side strategies Contracting models and provider competition The allocation of capital and health sector reform Performance-tied payment systems for physicians Financing operating costs for hospital services Changing hospital systems The usual suspect and the failure of cost containment regulating expenditure on medicines in European Union countries Part four: On state, citizen and society The role of the state in healthcare reform Optimal balance of centralized and decentralized management Citizen participation and patient choice in health reform Values, norms and the reform of healthcare systems Part five: Implementing health reform Implementing healthcare reform a framework for discussion Implementing healthcare reform a review of current experience Part six: Assessing the evidence Index. ...
