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- Title: Health Reforms Across the World
- Author : Kieke Okma & Tim Tenbensel
- Release Date : January 24, 2020
- Genre: Medical,Books,Professional & Technical,Law,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 10258 KB
Description
This book presents the health reform experiences over the past three decades of twelve small and medium-sized nations that are not often included in international comparative studies in this field. The major conclusion of the study is that despite many similarities in policy goals, policy challenges and in the menu of policy options for countries that seek to offer universal coverage to their population, the health reforms of the nations in this book did not converge into one direction or model. However, we found several widespread policy experiences that are relevant for others, too.
For example, user fees are unpopular everywhere. Governments often try to soften the consequences by exempting large groups of users, thus largely defeating the very purpose of those fees.
As a second example, the introduction of new payment modes for medical care — like the shift from fee for service to case-based payment — took much longer than originally expected everywhere, and also failed to deliver their promises of improved transparency or efficiency gains
A third example is that proposals are for universal coverage often ignore the challenges of implementing new financing models that elsewhere took decades if not centuries to develop.
The conclusions contain both empirical findings and theoretical conclusions of interest to policy-makers and scholars of international comparison. It is accessible for academics, healthcare managers and students as well as a wider audience of readers interested in the changes in healthcare across the world.
Contents: Introduction (Kieke Okma and Tim Tenbensel)Healthcare Reforms in Africa: Ghana and Tanzania:Healthcare Financing Reforms: Ghana's National Health Insurance (Adam Fusheini)Health Reforms in Tanzania: From Self-Reliance to Donor Dependency and Efforts to Return to Self-Reliance (Igor Francetic)Health Reforms in Latin America: Chile and Ecuador:Health Reforms in Chile (Guillermo Paraje)Public Health Policy in Ecuador (Santiago Illescas Correa)Healthcare Reforms in Western Europe: The Netherlands and Switzerland:Change and Continuity in Dutch Healthcare: Origins and Consequences of the 2006 Health Insurance Reforms (Kieke G H Okma, Aad de Roo and Hans Maarse)Federal Government, Cantons and Direct Democracy in the Swiss Health System (Luca Crivelli and Carlo De Pietro)Health Reforms in Eastern Europe and the Middle East: The Czech Republic, Slovenia and Israel:Czech Healthcare: Its Past, Present and Future Challenges (Marek PavlÃk and Zuzana Kotherová)Healthcare in Slovenia: Progress, Stagnation and the Need for Further Reform (Stanislava Setnikar Cankar and Dalibor Stanimirović)Israel's Healthcare Reforms: From Big Bang to Incremental Change (David Chinitz)Oceania and Asia: New Zealand, Singapore and Taiwan:New Zealand's Healthcare System: Rapid Reform and Incremental Change (Tim Tenbensel and Toni Ashton)Healthcare Reforms in Singapore (Kee-Seng Chia and Meng-Kin Lim)Taiwan's Single-Payer National Health Insurance: Recent Reforms and Future Challenges (Tsung-Mei Cheng)
Readership: National and multi-national policy-makers, healthcare and health insurance managers, journalists. Models;Governance and Decision-Making;Government Regulation;International Comparison;Lesson-Drawing Across Borders00
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