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The law and policy of healthcare financing : an international comparison of models and outcomes
Title
The law and policy of healthcare financing : an international comparison of models and outcomes / edited by Wolf Sauter (Healthcare Directorate, Authority for Consumers and Markets (ACM) and Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC), the Netherlands), Jos Boertjens and Johan van Manen (Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa)), and Misja Mikkers (Tilburg University, Department of Economics and Tilburg Law and Economics Center (TILEC) and Dutch Healthcare Authority (NZa), the Netherlands).
ISBN
9781788115926 (e-book)
Physical Description
1 online resource (480 pages).
Notes
Includes index.
Description based on print record.
Summary
Examining the ways and extent to which systemic factors affect health outcomes with regard to quality, affordability and access to curative healthcare, this explorative book compares the relative merits of tax-funded Beveridge systems and insurance-based Bismarck systems. The Law and Policy of Healthcare Financing charts and compares healthcare system outcomes throughout 11 countries, from the UK to Colombia. Thematic chapters investigate the economic and legal explanations for the relevant similarities, variations and trends across the globe. Concluding that systemic factors may be less significant than previously believed, this comprehensive book notes that no one system consistently outperforms the others, yet incentives and funding improvements may lift performances across all curative healthcare systems. Analytical and comparative, this book will be of interest to academics working in the fields of health law and health economics. Public authorities including health ministries, policymakers and international health organisations will also find this to be an invaluable resource.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
September 05, 2019
Series
Elgar studies in health and the law.
Contents
Contents: Introduction: Healthcare financing - an international comparison of models and outcomes / Jos Boertjens, Johan van Manen, Misja Mikkers and Wolf Sauter
Part I: Thematic chapters
1. Explaining America's spendthrift healthcare system: the enduring effects of public regulation on private competition / William M. Sage
2. Effective access to healthcare services abroad under the EU directive on cross-border patients' rights / Jarleth M. Burke
3. A legal perspective on tax-based versus insurance-based healthcare systems: comparing England and the Netherlands / Jos Boertjens and Mary Guy
4. A theoretical model of the determinants of waiting lists: an application to the Spanish national health system / Ana Rodríguez-Álvarez and Maria J. Perez-Villadoniga
5. Financial incentives to change the healthcare landscape: a case study / Josine Janus
6. Population-based financing: the future of healthcare? / Peter Bogetoft, Misja Mikkers and Victoria Shestalova
Part II: Country reports
7. Country report: Austria / Julia Bobek, Lena Lepuschütz and Florian Bachner
8. Country report: Belgium / Filip Dewallens and Julie Vermeulen
9. Country report: Czech Republic - hospital financing in the czech republic / Silvie Jerabkova
10. Country report: Colombia - approach to healthcare financing in colombia and its impact on quality, affordability and competition / Catalina Góngora Torres
11. Country report: England / Tuomas Haanperä
12. Country report: France / Isabelle Durand-Zaleski and Johan van Manen
13. Country report: Germany / Katherine Polin, Wilm Quentin, Victor Stephani and Alexander Geissler
14. Country report: Ireland / John Lombard and Gerald O'Nolan
15. Country report: the Netherlands / Johan van Manen
16. Country report: Norway / Karl Harald Søvig and Harald Platou
17. Country report: South Africa / Alex van den Heever
Index.
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Genre/Form
Electronic books.
Also listed under
Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
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